Housing Development Strategy - Report - Page 17
Housing Development Strategy Action Plan
Action
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Action Description
1
Build the capability within the Housing Development Team to deliver a successful development and enabling programme.
2
Develop and publish a 3-year rolling development programme with an objective of achieving 50+ units p.a.
3
Review corporately all Council land ownership to identify potential housing development sites for new Council housing.
4
Ensure that environmental impacts are taken into account in all initial feasibility assessments on potential development and redevelopment
projects.
5
Investigate energy efficient and sustainable approaches to development and consider options to deliver new housing and individual remodelling
projects to achieve carbon neutral or passive house standards where practicable and cost effective to do so.
6
Develop a 3 year indicative programme of shared ownership and shared equity housing across the district and publish it annually.
7
Consider all developments with S106 new builds to consider viability.
8
Potential development sites across the district to be reviewed and negotiations to be carried out following necessary approvals.
9
Establish effective working relationships with a range of development partners.
10
Establish the means to monitor and assess existing Council assets and potential acquisition opportunities for redevelopment.
11
Improve the efficiency of the housing stock. Reduce the level of under-occupation, helping to alleviate the housing burden on
the Council.
12
Deliver a range of accommodation to help our partners meet their statutory responsibilities and reduce the burden on the public
purse. This would include a proactive Right to Buy buy-back where appropriate former council housing comes on the market.
13
Increase the number of units affected or created by the redevelopment programme to 30 per annum by 2021.
14
To develop a scheme viability assessment process to be applied to all proposed new developments in the district.
15
Review of 3-year development pipeline to be considered in relation to budgeted finances within HRA Business Plan and to inform
the next business plan review.
16
Introduce a 12 month follow-up survey on all new developments and redevelopments to identify issues and learning to inform
future developments.
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Produce a Procedures Guide to support the strategy
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