Nottingham's Housing Strategy 2024-2028: Creating Sustainable Communities
Nottingham's Housing Strategy outlines a vision for creating safe, affordable, and sustainable housing to meet the needs of residents. Priorities include housing delivery, regeneration, carbon neutrality, affordable homes, homelessness prevention, and independent living support. The strategy aligns with key council plans and addresses national and local housing challenges.
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Homes Fit for the Future Nottingham s Housing Strategy 2024-2028 Strategic Enabler, Strategic Partner and Landlord Councillor Jay Hayes, Executive Member for Housing and Planning Mark Lowe, Head of Housing & Regeneration
Introduction Nottingham s Housing Strategy for 2024-2028 outlines the vision, priorities, and actions for improving the quality, supply, and affordability of housing in the city. The goal is to create safe, clean, green communities with good quality, safe housing where people want to live, and everyone can thrive. The strategy is aligned with key council strategies and responds to the national and local context of housing challenges and opportunities.
Vision Homes in Nottingham meet the aspirations and needs of our current and future residents. People live in safe, warm homes that they can afford, in vibrant local neighbourhoods where everyone can thrive.
Priorities Strategically enabling housing led delivery and regeneration and improving housing standards while continuing the progress towards a carbon net zero future. Making the best use of the available housing stock and supporting the development and acquisition of more affordable homes. Preventing and reducing homelessness and rough sleeping. In partnership with health services, social care and other partner agencies, supporting people to live independently.
Strategic context Governance and Operating Context: The council faces financial challenges and opportunities from devolution and housing management changes. Strategic Council Plan: The plan outlines ten outcomes for Nottingham, including better housing and carbon neutrality. Nottingham s Economic Plan for Growth: The plan aims to deliver a sustainable and inclusive city with housing growth as a priority. Nottingham City Local Plan: The plan sets the strategic planning context and the target for new housing provision in the city. Changing Futures: Tackling Severe Multiple Disadvantage: The programme seeks to improve the experiences and outcomes of people with complex needs. Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategy for Nottingham: The strategy promotes collaborative action to address the wider determinants of health, including housing. Better Lives, Better Outcomes: A Strategy for Adult Social Care in Nottingham: The strategy focuses on prevention, community connections, independent lives, and choice and control. Carbon Neutral Action Plan, 2020-2028: The plan outlines the objectives and actions to achieve a resilient and sustainable carbon-neutral city by 2028.
Local Context The housing market has changed nationally and locally over the last few years, with house prices and rents increasing, and the tenure mix of homes shifting locally. Local rents are below the national average, but still unaffordable for many due to lower average earnings in Nottingham. Nottingham has a lower proportion of owner-occupation and a higher proportion of both social and private rented than both the regional and national average. Homelessness and the reliance on bed and breakfast accommodation has surged over the past four years. The council has successful partnerships with health and social care agencies to provide suitable housing and support options for vulnerable residents
Challenges Financial constraints: The council faces significant financial challenges and limited resources to deliver the strategy's vision and priorities. Housing supply and affordability: The city has a high demand for affordable housing that exceeds the available supply. The council needs to enable and support the development of more social and affordable homes. Housing quality and standards: The council has to ensure that all housing in the city meets the safety and quality standards set by the government and the Regulator of Social Housing. The council also has to improve the energy efficiency of its own and private sector homes. Homelessness and rough sleeping: The council has to prevent and reduce homelessness and rough sleeping, which have increased in the city and nationally. The council also has to end the routine use of B&B for families with children. Housing and support needs: The City Council has to respond to the needs of a diverse range of people with different and changing needs associated with age, health, disability, and levels of vulnerability.
Key Initiatives Work with partners to deliver new housing and quality new neighbourhoods that meet the City's vision and needs. Review the Housing Allocations Policy and work with social housing providers to maximise the use of existing affordable homes and reduce overcrowding and under- occupation. Prevent and reduce homelessness and end the routine use of B&B for families with children. Work with the Place-Based Partnership to enable integrated partnerships between health, housing, and social care to promote investment in housing and our collectively identified priorities.
Key Actions 1) Supporting regeneration and economic growth 2) Encouraging age-friendly and health-promoting homes and neighbourhoods 3) Building homes and neighbourhoods for a greener Nottingham 4) Bringing empty homes back into use 5) Achieving the right balance of student housing 6) Improving neighbourhoods, homes, and services for our tenants 7) Ensuring social housing landlords invest in their homes and in neighbourhoods in Nottingham 8) Ensuring that homes in the private rented sector are high quality, sustainable, and secure 9) Supporting owner occupiers with low incomes to maintain their homes 10)Making best use of affordable housing 11)Supporting the development of affordable homes 12)Preventing homelessness and rough sleeping 13)In partnership with health, social care and other partner agencies, supporting vulnerable people to live independently. 14)Meeting the needs and aspirations of minority community groups
Have your say To take part in the consultation please fill out our online survey which is available on the council s Engage Nottingham Hub webpage https://www.nottinghamcity.gov.uk/engage-nottingham-hub/open- consultations/housing-strategy-consultation/ Questions include What do you think are the city s most pressing housing issues? What do you think of the vision? Do you agree with the priorities and key actions? How can your organisation be involved in achieving the vision?
Support the consultation Please share the consultation page with your colleagues and networks to help us raise awareness that the consultation is open. Supporting materials Housing Strategy - public consultation web page https://www.nottinghamcity.gov.uk/engage-nottingham-hub/open- consultations/housing-strategy-consultation/ Press release https://www.mynottinghamnews.co.uk/nottingham-city-council-launches- consultation-on-new-housing-strategy/ Twitter https://x.com/NottinghamNouse/status/1813555039589527563 Facebook https://shorturl.at/k3oH1
Next Steps The public consultation closes midnight 27 August. The responses we receive through the survey will help shape the final strategy document and our actions for the next four years. The strategy will be agreed at the council s Executive Board in Winter 2024 so it can be adopted formally as a council document. An Implementation Plan will be published with the Housing Strategy and regularly monitored and reviewed.
