Related to this is a policy of offering a wide variety of tenancy arrangements,
ranging from owner-occupation to rental to equity-share for homes,
and from freehold to leasehold (including initial low, non-commercial rents) to easy in/easy out licenses for businesses.
The ultimate aim is to encourage the early and continued provision of local services, including small independent enterprises, and a diversity of residents in terms of income, ethnicity, age and household type.
There is an express objective here to encourage people to meet with social difference, in order to enable an understanding of, and empathy for, heterogeneity, and thereby enhance community civility and democracy.