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Housing Strategy 2013-2016

Meeting: 16/10/2013 - Cabinet (Item 86)

86 Housing Strategy 2013-2016 pdf icon PDF 188 KB

Additional documents:

Decision:

Cabinet:

 

1.    Approved the draft Housing Strategy and in particular the proposed key priorities for tackling homelessness, promoting new affordable housing development, meeting older people’s housing needs, promoting quality in the private housing sector, and providing more supported housing to meet identified need – detailed in section 4 of this report –subject to further consultation within the Council, and with partner organisations and residents.

2.    Delegated authority to the Cabinet Member for Housing to consider all of the consultation responses and to make amendments to the key priorities and/or the content of the Housing Strategy, unless any amendment has financial implications in which case further recommendations will be made to Cabinet.

Minutes:

Councillor Lesley Kelly, Cabinet Member for Housing & Public Protection, introduced the report.

 

The report introduced the Council’s draft Housing Strategy for 2013 – 2016 which comprehensively up-dated the previous Strategy. In particular, the new Housing Strategy had been drafted in the form a series of sub-strategies covering: