Housing Strategy
Our housing strategy team works with the Homes and
Communities Agency, regional bodies and local government to plan
for new housing and to attract government investment. The team is
also responsible for producing Peterborough City Council's 'Housing
Strategy' document, which identifies the long term housing
priorities for the city and the actions required to address
them.
The housing strategy team also has responsibility for the
following functions:
- To monitor the delivery of the ‘Housing Strategy Action Plan’,
which is a series of actions set out in the ‘Housing
Strategy’.
- To carry out assessments of the need for affordable housing in
the strategic housing area. This information can act as an
‘evidence base’ for planning policies relating to affordable
housing.
- The commissioning and publication of ‘Housing Needs
Assessments’, which identify the types of housing required across
Peterborough. This information is of great value to the council’s
strategic work, and to private developers and housing
associations.
- To work with Registered Social Landlords (RSLs) to ensure the
development of new affordable housing. We primarily do this by
supporting applications by RSL’s for government funding on housing
development which the council has been identified as fulfilling a
specific need.
- To work with private housing developers and council Planning
Officers to ensure the delivery of affordable housing on new
private housing developments.
- To contribute towards meeting the aims and objectives of the
‘Regional Housing Strategy’, which sets a target for 25,000 new
homes to be built within Peterborough by 2021
- To produce policy and undertake research on behalf of the
council's ‘Strategic Planning and Enabling’ division.
The present Peterborogugh Housing Strategy covers the period
2008-11.
The team has also recently published the Peterborough Rural Housing Strategy 2010-13.
The housing strategy team has recently undertaken a Peterborough sub-regional strategic housing market
assessment project to assess the characteristics of the
sub-regional housing market. This project also involved an
assessment of the level of 'housing need' across the city and the
sub-region and subsequently it has had a major influence on city
council strategies related to housing and planning.
The Housing Strategy team is presently
involved in a number of other projects, these include:
- Strategic Housing
Market Assessment Update - This is a study that seeks to
estimate the amount and type of market and affordable housing
needed up to 2026 and will form part of the evidence base for
planning policy. A draft of this study is presently passing through
a period of public consultation, with the 13th July 2010 as the
deadline for comments.
- Migrant Workers Survey - This is a study to look at the access
of migrant workers to housing, employment and community
cohesion.
- Affordable Housing Financial Viability Assessment – This
assessment fulfils a government requirement for local authorities
to test the viability of their policies relating to the development
of affordable housing. It will help to ensure that affordable
housing policies are genuinely deliverable.
- Assessment of the Housing Implications of Employment Land Use
across the Peterborough Sub-Region - This piece of research will be
looking at the likely relationship between the use of designated
employment land upon future housing need and commuting
patterns across the Peterborough sub-region. It will provide an
assessment of the resulting type and location of housing that will
be required across the city and the sub-region.