Issue - meetings

To seek approval of the Countywide Housing Strategy for Worcestershire 2011 – 2016.

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

The Committee considered a report which set out a Countywide Housing Strategy for Worcestershire for the next five years.

It was noted that the housing market did not respect local authority boundaries and that, increasingly, strategic housing functions were carried out with numbers of partners, both other local authorities and statutory and voluntary sector agencies.  This was one of the drivers behind a move from District Housing Strategies to a Countywide approach.

Members particularly drew a number of details from the Strategy which brought to attention the good work that had been undertaken over a number of years to maintain the Council’s housing stock. These included the Council’s achievements in meeting the Decent Homes standards and the low levels of disrepair in the Council’s housing stock.

RECOMMENDED that

the Countywide Housing Strategy and action plan attached at Appendix 1 to the report be approved.