Housing Strategy
Housing is one of the most basic human
requirements for survival and wellbeing and affects a whole range
of issues such as supporting and improving employment prospects,
contributing to good health, reducing crime, tackling climate
change and sustaining environmental quality and design.
Northumberland County Council is expected to
prepare a Housing Strategy as an essential component of the
Sustainable Community Strategy. The Council has a duty to
identify housing need and publish a housing strategy to meet those
needs. We will ensure that people have access to a range of
housing options which can help them to make their own housing
choices, including the option of staying in their own home and live
as independently as possible.
The Strategic Housing Service aims to ensure
that the population of Northumberland have access to a home that’s
safe, warm, affordable and appropriate for their needs and that
help and support is available to those that cannot meet their own
housing need.
You can view our current Housing Strategy here:
Housing
Strategy Final 2011
Affordable Housing
The delivery of affordable housing is a key priority for
Northumberland County Council. Between 2011 and 2014 we aim
to deliver 1,356 new affordable homes of which:
- 280 will be delivered with council investment of £20
million.
- 900 will be delivered by partners and a proportion of the homes
will be affordable.
- 176 will be new council homes built using £12.3 million of
council Housing Revenue Account funds and £2.8 million from the
Governments' Affordable Housing Programme.
View the Affordable Housing Protocol here:
Northumberland
Affordable Housing Protocol
Enabling Officers
Enabling officers are responsible
for identifying sites for development and advising
on how appropriate housing might be delivered on those
site. They work closely with local communities and
developers including Registered Social Landlords and Community Land
Trusts.
If you would like to talk to someone
about a site that could be used for affordable housing, or if
you are a parish council who has identified a shortage of
affordable housing in your area, then please contact our Housing
Enablers on 0845 600 6400.
Tenancy Strategy
The Localism Act 2011 introduced a number of
changes in social housing which includes a new duty for every
local authority to publish a tenancy strategy. The strategy should
provide guidance for Registered Providers of social
housing in the county in formulating policies relating to the
following and Registered providers are obliged to have regard to
the strategy when developing their own tenancy policies:
(a) the kinds of tenancies they
grant,
(b) the circumstances in which
they will grant a tenancy of a particular kind,
(c) where they grant tenancies for
a term, the lengths of the terms, and
(d) the circumstances in which
they will grant a further tenancy on the coming to an end of an
existing tenancy.
You can view the Northumberland County Council
Tenancy Strategy 2012 here:
Northumberland
Tenancy Strategy October
2012
Useful Documents
You might find some of the following documents interesting:
Northumberland
Strategic Housing Market Assessment 2010
Northumberland
Local Investment Plan
Rural
Information Network Briefing Note on Affordable Housing in Rural
Areas
Housing Needs Assessments
Housing Needs Assessments provide a robust assessment of
housing and housing support requirements across all tenures and
client groups. They are essential in enabling us
to determine future housing requirements in
Northumberland.
Northumberland
Housing Needs Assessment 2012 Executive Summary
Northumberland
Housing Needs Assessment 2012
Northumberland
Sub Area Housing Needs Assessment 2012
Glendale
Housing Needs Assessment 2012
Alnwick
District Parish Report 2009
Tynedale
Housing Needs Assessment 2009
Alnwick
Housing Needs Assessment 2008
Berwick
Housing Needs Report 2008
Blyth Valley
Housing Needs Assessment 2008
Coastal
Cluster Executive Summary 2008
Warkworth
Executive Summary 2008
Alnmouth
Lesbury Hipsburn Executive Summary 2007
Castle
Morpeth Housing Needs Assessment 2007
Shilbottle
Executive Summary 2007
Wansbeck
Housing Needs Survey 2006
Berwick
Borough Council Housing Needs Assessment 2005
Tyndale
Housing Needs Assessment 2004-2005
Gypsy and Travellers
Gypsies and Travellers have been part of the
community in Northumberland for hundreds of years and our strategy
aims to promote a better understanding of the needs of Gypsies
and Travellers in Northumberland across partners and ensure future
services are planned and delivered in an accessible way to meet
those needs.
You can view the current strategy here:
Strategy
for Gypsies and Travellers in Northumberland
The 2012/2015 strategy is currently
being developed in partnership by a number of agencies,
including Northumberland County Council, Northumbria Healthcare NHS
Foundation Trust, Northumbria Police and Voluntary and
Community Sector Organisations. You can view a copy of the
draft here:
Draft
strategy for Gypsies and Travellers in Northumberland.
Other Useful Documents
Gypsies and
Travellers Housing Needs Assessment
Hartford
Bridge Site Improvements Bid
Gypsy
and Traveller and Travelling Showpeople Sites- A Regional
Analysis
