Housing strategies
Why Allerdale needs a Housing Strategy
Allerdale Borough Council wants Allerdale to be a
great place to live. That means as many people as possible should
have a decent home.
Allerdale Borough Council believes that any
Housing Strategy should focus on housing as homes. Our most recent
five-year Allerdale Housing Strategy was first published in late
1999. However, during 2005, we started working with the Cumbria
Housing Group to develop a single 'Fit for Purpose' Housing
Strategy for the whole of Cumbria. This new strategy which will be
the first of its kind in Britain will help make sure that all of
Cumbria's housing markets, providers and policies are
working together to increase the opportunities for everyone in
Cumbria to find a decent home for themselves and their family. The
Cumbria Housing Strategy will help us...
- Identify the planning allocations, decided
regionally, for the number of new homes that can be built in
Cumbria.
- With the housing investment decisions
made by the Regional Housing
Board - the Board's decisions decide how much money local
councils and housing associations can spend improving housing in
Cumbria...
- With the development of Supporting People. Funds for
these important services are always in short supply especially in a
large, sparsely populated rural area like Cumbria. Working
together can achieve the critical mass necessary to provide
better services.
- Make sure that housing markets support the
economic development of Cumbria...
The
Cumbria Housing Strategy was published in November 2006
but before then the Cumbria Housing Group's Housing Strategy Task
Group chaired by Allerdale Housing Services discussed with as many
people and organisations as possible what type of housing is needed
in the future for Cumbria. You can contact the group by e-mailing
housing.services@allerdale.go.uk.
To access a copy of the Cumbria Housing Strategy
visit the Impact Housing
website.
Allerdale Housing Strategy has been superseded by the Cumbria
Housing Strategy. However, the work Allerdale carried
out on the local strategy will be used to create a full Allerdale Housing Statement. You can download a
summary of that piece of work, prepared as part of our contribution
to the Cumbria Housing Strategy Group.
The Cumbria Housing Statement was updated in July 2006, it was
Cumbria's contribution to the North West regional Housing Strategy.
It followed the lead set by the Cumbria Strategic Partnership's
Sustainable Cumbria plan for the development of the new Cumbrian
economy and forms the basis of the Cumbria Housing Strategy.
You can download the background Briefing Paper for Allerdale's
Balanced Housing Market Assessment for your parish below.
The spreadsheets in this section contain the
identified housing need for each parish. At the start of the
survey process parishes were grouped together and the results have
been similarly grouped in the spreadsheets.
In the past, the Housing Market Assessments
have been conducted using median income and median house prices.
However the practice guidance that sets out the framework for local
authorities to follow to assess the housing market and to assess
housing need and demand suggests that lower quartile house prices
and lower quartile incomes should be used. Therefore taking this
into account, all the Housing Market Assessments have been
updated.
Data in the spreadsheets is correct as at
August 2010.
If you would like a copy of the full Housing
Market Assessment please contact Allerdale Borough Council, Housing
Services on 01900 702612 or 01900 702659