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Why a Regional Housing Strategy ?
The Communities Plan "Sustainable communities: building
for the future", published in February, proposed a new
regional dimension to housing strategy. In every English region,
a new Regional Housing Board is to take responsibility for the "preparation
of a Regional Housing Strategy as the basis for advice to Ministers
on strategic housing investment priorities". With the region's
Approved Development Programme (ADP) and Housing Investment Programme
(HIP) resources combined into a new single pot for housing, the
Board will "advise Ministers on the allocation of the single
pot to meet the priorities identified in the Regional Housing Strategy".
The Regional Housing Board want to ensure that the North West makes
the most of this opportunity to take a new approach to housing investment.
So, while we will meet the requirement to have a strategy in place
for the next two years, we also want to look at the bigger questions
about our long term future as a region. This should move away from
directing public sector activity toward a more comprehensive framework
for activity, recognising and involving the key private sector drivers
within the housing market.
In a series of Regional Housing Statements over the last few years,
the North West has developed a shared understanding of the key issues
it faces. The last of these , developed by a partnership led by
the North West Housing Forum, the Regional Assembly, Government
Office and Housing Corporation, provides a sound basis for moving
from Statement to Strategy.
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