Local Plan: These are the parts of Calderdale that could get more affordable homes including Hebden Bridge, Ripponden, Barkisland and ares of Halifax

The borough needs more than 200 new affordable homes a year built over the next decade, said a document before council’s Cabinet which is likely to inform the newly-approved Local Plan.

Affordable housing can include homes for social or affordable rent, rent-to-buy and homes which can be sold at a discount - such as starter or first homes.

To achieve that, the paper included suggestions of making planning permissions for new developments being dependent on developers entering into legal agreements to provide a proportion of homes that are affordable.

The document proposed a form of zoning, which would see the creation of Zone A (need “very hot”), Zone B (need “hot”), Zone C (need “medium”) and Zone D (need “cold”), with the higher “temperature” meaning the most need.

In Zone A – which the document says includes Hebden Bridge, Charlestown, Ripponden, Rishworth and Barkisland – even developments of under 10 dwellings would require 35 per cent of them to be affordable.

In Zone B – which includes Northowram, Shelf, Norwood Green, Halifax town centre, Skircoat and parts of Lightcliffe – developments of under 10 dwellings would require 30 per cent to be affordable.

In Zone C – which includes Todmorden, Walsden, Cornholme, Mytholmroyd, Sowerby Bridge, Illingworth, Luddenden Foot, Luddenden, Bradshaw, Brighouse, Rastrick, Clifton, Southowram, Hipperholme, Bailiff Bridge, and other parts of Lightcliffe - developments of more than 15 homes would require 25 per cent to be affordable.

And in Zone D – which includes Elland, Greetland, Holywell Green, Stainland, Wheatley, Ovenden Halifax, Mixenden, Boothtown and parts of West Halifax – developments of more than 15 homes would require 20 per cent to be affordable.

The document has not been formally adopted yet but will be put out for public consultation.

The Local Plan – a controversial blueprint for the borough that will see around 10,000 new homes built in Calderdale - was given the final green light by councillors in March, despite concerns from angry residents.