Priority 1: Building high quality, sustainable and affordable new homes
Our aims:
We will work with partners to enable the delivery of new homes to meet local need.
We will lead by example by building and acquiring hundreds of new council homes.
We will ensure new homes are high quality and sustainable.
Key performance indicators:
Increase the number of new homes built in the Borough.
Ensure a minimum 25% of new homes are affordable housing.
Increase the number of council homes available, including through new build and acquisitions.
Ensure all council new build and acquisitions are a minimum EPC C when let.
Over the next five years, we will:
Provide a high quality, efficient planning service to help accelerate delivery, including pre-application advice for housing developments and working with housing developers and builders to enable key strategic housing sites identified in the Local Plan to meet housing targets.
Continue to diversify the housing offer in the Borough, including affordable home ownership options such as shared ownership, more joint working with SMEs and housing associations, supported by partnership working with SYMCA and Homes England to maximise funding opportunities for housing schemes.
Adopt the Bassingthorpe Farm Supplementary Planning Document and work with partners to shape delivery of this and other key strategic housing sites.
Deliver more council and affordable homes through our Council build, acquisitions and small sites homebuilding initiative programmes on sites across the Borough, and through our work to enable affordable housing with partners. We will achieve our 1,000 Council homes target by Summer 2027 and build a pipeline of future affordable housing projects.
Meet and where possible, exceed minimum nationally described space standards when building new council homes, and build new homes with renewable energy systems to ensure that they are zero carbon ready to meet the Future Homes Standard. We will also ensure all Council acquisitions are a minimum of EPC rating C.
Use our Place and Quality Panel to ensure schemes are delivered with input from cross-council services and that we learn from outcomes of recent delivery.
Indicators:
No. of new homes built, including council and partner delivery
Planning applications
% of housing target achieved
Customer feedback
No. of developments meeting the Affordable Housing policy
