Housing Strategy 2009-2014 - South Derbyshire District Council

South Derbyshire District Council Housing Strategy 2009 – 2014
3. THE WIDER PRIORITIES FOR HOUSING
3.1 National and Regional Priorities
3.1.1 This Housing Strategy sits within the context of wider national and regional
priorities and aims to deliver these at a local level. This includes proposals to
increase the supply of housing, to provide well-designed and greener homes and
providing more affordable homes to buy and rent. The following sets out some of
the key National and Regional priorities.
3.2 2005 Sustainable Communities: Homes for All
3.2.1 This sets out the Government’s vision for Sustainable Communities as,
‘A flourishing, fair society based on opportunity and choice for everyone
depends on creating sustainable communities – places that offer everyone a
decent home that they can afford in a community in which they want to live
and work, now and in the future.’
3.2.2 This Plan is based on promoting choice, fairness and the opportunity to own or
rent a good quality home that meets people’s needs. It sets out an ambitious
programme to tackle the different housing challenges we face including increasing
opportunities for affordable home ownership and tackling homelessness.
The plan also aims to create sustainable, mixed communities whilst protecting
and enhancing the environment, historic towns, cities and the countryside and with
the provision of housing related support.
3.3 2007 Housing Green Paper: Homes for the future;
more affordable, more sustainable.
3.3.1 The Government’s vision is that they ‘want everyone to have access to a decent
home at a price they can afford, in a place where they want to live and work.’
3.3.2 Proposals include a large increase in the supply of new, including affordable,
homes, speeding up of the planning process, the use of public sector land,
emphasis on the use of brown field sites and bringing empty properties back
into use, homes and places to be well-designed and greener and developing a
workforce with skills and capacity to meet the future needs. The Housing Strategy
includes actions to locally deliver a number of these proposals. For example:
Supporting the planning process to increase the supply of homes on the fringes
of Derby City, working with Registered Social Landlords to raise the standard of
affordable homes.
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