Issue - meetings

To seek approval for the Worcestershire Local Investment Plan and ask Members to note elements of the Affordable Housing Delivery Framework.

(Report attached – appendix under separate cover to Committee Members – available also through Council website)

Members received a report which firstly set out a Local Investment Plan (LIP) for the county that had been developed by Worcestershire local authorities and other key partners and which set out shared priorities for housing, regeneration, economic development and supporting infrastructure and also summarised a range of proposed reforms to the means by which social housing was delivered.

It was noted that one outcome of the new Affordable Housing Programme Framework might be an increase in the numbers of people seeking to secure social rented property from the Council and a consequent increase in the number of people on the Council’s waiting list.

RECOMMENDED that

1)         the Worcestershire Local Investment Plan be endorsed;

and RESOLVED that

2)         the range of proposed reforms to the delivery of affordable housing and the summary of the key elements of the Homes and Communities Agency’s new Affordable Housing Delivery Framework be noted.