The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government has pledged to introduce new guidance to stop the incorporation of segregation measures such as so-called “poor doors” in mixed-tenure new developments.

Secretary of state James Brokenshire said the department was committed to taking action to boost community cohesion within developments and making it harder to introduce elements – which can include children’s play areas – that are explicitly not for the use of some categories of resident.

The phenomenon of poor doors – separate entrances for residents of on-site affordable housing delivered as part of upmarket private sector-led flats – emerged over the past two decades.

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