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Welcome to the North West Regional Housing Board's website
The Board was established in February 2003 to ensure delivery of
the policies set out in the Communities Plan. The Board currently
comprises representatives of the Government Office for the North
West, the Housing Corporation, the North West Development Agency,
the North West Regional Assembly, English Partnerships and the North
West Housing Forum.
The Board has specific responsibility for preparing a Regional
Housing Strategy as the basis for advice to Ministers on the priorities
for strategic housing investment in the region. We also have responsibility
to ensure that the high level strategies (including the Regional
Economic Strategy and Regional Planning Guidance) in the North West
are consistent and support the Communities Plan and the wider objectives
of sustainable development. The organisations represented on the
Board accept that this places an obligation on them to work together
much more effectively at regional level to make sure that this happens,
and are committed to doing that. We also need to take this a stage
further - not just aligning regional strategies, but also our own
investment plans and programmes to maximise our contribution to
the priorities we are collectively establishing for the North West.
This is a new environment for us all, locally and regionally. The
North West Regional Housing Board is keen to make the most of this
opportunity to increase the influence of the region itself on some
key strategic investment decisions.
Our timetable is tight: we have to produce our initial Regional
Housing Strategy by July this year. This will limit the scope for
consultation and broad involvement in developing the strategy. That
is one reason why the Board decided to set up this website, to keep
you up to date on what is going on, and to be an easy way for you
to add your views and evidence.
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