Council approves new strategies to support local housing need

Councillor’s approved two new strategies to support local housing need at the last full council meeting on Monday 16 December.

The Homelessness and Rough Sleeping Strategy looks at:

• Preventing and relieving homelessness
• Tackling rough sleeping
• Meeting the needs of vulnerable people
• Accessing suitable and affordable accommodation
• Preventing repeat homelessness.

While the Tenancy Strategy sets out the council’s expectations of social housing providers within the borough to ensure that housing is provided to meet local housing need through best use of housing stock and tenancy management.

These strategies form the council’s response to statutory duties and are shaped by national and local policies. To inform the strategies, a review of housing and homelessness services in the town took place this year alongside a public consultation.