SL block does not appear on <front> page (generated by Views)

First I had an issue trying to get blocks to appear on nodes, then I realise I had to set it in General Settings under Node Types. Which seemed a little excessive to also control block access from a special configuration page, as core has it's own functions for controlling access and location inside each block.

Now I have another problem where the block will not appear on the <front> page of my site (no other blocks have this problem). I get the node type Page in the SL configuration screen but no luck. A source of the issue might be that the page was generated by Views.

Has anyone found a solution to this?

To be honest, I think letting core control the accessability of Blocks is more than enough, and adding to an additonal configuration page in SL is a little excessive. Unless there is a good reason for it that I cannot see?