Housing Strategy Consultation
The Council has prepared a new Housing Strategy for the period
2010-2015 and we would like to know your views.
The Council recognises that access to good quality housing which
people can afford is at the heart of achieving the social and
economic well-being of communities. Our Housing Strategy should
therefore identify the key housing issues that matter most and set
objectives for the Council and its partners to achieve which will
make a real difference to local people.
The draft Housing Strategy reflects changes in strategic context
since the last strategy was prepared, considers the key housing
issues in the district and shows how the priorities and objectives
are linked to the Council’s underpinning housing strategies and
other key corporate and county wide strategies.
The housing priorities set out in the draft Housing Strategy are
as follows:
- Delivering housing growth in support of our regeneration and
economic development objectives.
- Delivering more affordable homes to ensure we meet the housing
needs of the whole community.
- Improving the condition of the existing housing stock and
making better use of it.
- Addressing social and health inequality and enabling vulnerable
people to access good quality housing and to live
independently.
Delivery of the Strategy will be via a range of specific actions
contained in a five year action plan. Many of these originate from
work undertaken in preparation of a suite of housing sub strategies
and are brought together in a consolidated action plan.
A copy of the draft strategy is available here:
Please give us your views about the strategy
We would welcome your views on the strategy and in
particular:
- Do you agree with the aims and objectives set out in the
strategy?
- Have we correctly identified the key issues and the priorities
and objectives that will address them? Are there priorities you
would like to see included or don’t consider relevant?
- Will the proposed actions deliver the objectives and are they
an appropriate response to the issues identified?
- Is the strategy accessible and equal to all?
- Do you have any other general comments to make?
Contact
If you have any comments you would like to make, please submit
them in writing or email to:
Strategy & Research Officer
Dover District Council
White Cliffs Business Park
Dover CT16 3PJ
Email: andrew.baker@dover.gov.uk
The closing date for comments is Friday, 18 June
2010.
