A paper on the matter is due to go in front of Glasgow City Council’s planning applications committee tomorrow.

The current Glasgow city development plan doesn’t have an affordable housing policy – as in the past it was judged there would be a “greater provision of affordable housing than the anticipated demand”.

It comes after a planning meeting on November 30 heard, despite objections over a lack of affordable housing during a proposal for Partick, councillors could not make developers include any social homes in plans.

Council officer Andy Dale told the committee in November: “The current city development plan does not afford any scope to support affordable housing, adding: “There is no scope for us to impose a burden upon developers to provide affordable housing.”

The paper that is due to go in front of the committee on Tuesday said: “During the meeting on 30th November 2021 it was confirmed that because the existing city development plan does not contain any reference to an affordable housing policy, it was not appropriate to seek to impose any burden upon applicants to provide or contribute towards affordable housing as part of their application.

“The only time the council could introduce an affordable housing policy would be when the city development plan is replaced with a new local development plan.”

Work is underway within the council to create a new city development plan with progress delayed due to Covid.

The neighbourhoods, housing and public realm city policy committee will consider matters to be included in the city development plan, including affordable housing.