Housing Strategy 2009-2014 - South Derbyshire District Council

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South Derbyshire District Council Housing Strategy 2009 – 2014 Derbyshire Supporting People Partnership Choice Based Lettings Hi4EM Partnership Telecare and Derbyshire County Council Registered Social Landlord Partnership • Funding secured to develop housing related support projects for young people and women fleeing domestic violence. • Partnership with Derby City making it easier for residents to cross administrative boundaries. • Pooling of resources, skills and experiences. • Secured additional funding to meet decent homes standard in the private sector. • The Council is at the forefront of Telecare provision across Derbyshire and is offering services to both those in the private sector as well as the public sector. • Increased capacity. • Identified land and increased funding opportunities in the district. 5. HOUSING NEEDS IN SOUTH DERBYSHIRE 5.1 Generally 5.1.1 The Council has an on-going programme of studies, which assess future housing needs for the district. This includes studies that look at the housing needs of specific groups such as gypsies and travellers, black and minority ethnic groups and local housing needs in rural parishes with populations of less than 3,000. 5.1.2 As a growing district the Council recognises the need to understand the housing pressures of our neighbouring districts and how people move across administrative boundaries. To strengthen our understanding of the housing market, since publication of the 2004 Housing Strategy we have taken steps to proactively work in partnership with our neighbouring districts. This includes jointly funding the Derby Sub-region Strategic Housing Market Assessment, the Derbyshire wide Gypsy and Travellers research and working with our regional partners to review the condition and energy efficiency of the private sector housing stock. 5.2 Housing needs in South Derbyshire 5.2.1 In 2007/08 the Council worked in partnership with Derby City to jointly fund both a district-wide Strategic Housing Market Assessment and a Derby sub-region Strategic Housing Market Assessment. The district assessment was published in the autumn of 2008; the sub-regional study was published in May 2009. The following sets out the key findings from these two studies. 14
South Derbyshire District Council Housing Strategy 2009 – 2014 5.2.2 Housing market areas. South Derbyshire has three strong overlapping influences on its housing markets:- • The central Swadlincote urban area in the south of the district has strong links with Burton upon Trent for commuting and migrating. • Derby on the northern edge includes the suburbs on the edge of the principal urban area and villages are strongly linked to the City. • Rural areas, which are to a considerable extent free standing, with residents travelling to work in many diverse locations. The map below shows the sub-areas and their travel to work connections with the nearby major settlements. Source: 2007/8 South Derbyshire Strategic Housing Market Assessment 5.2.3 House prices and the active housing market. As with the rest of the country house prices increased substantially up to 2007 leading to problems of affordability. In late 2007 prices started to fall. This fall has been more dramatic for new build flats. 5.2.4 There are wide variations in house prices across the district with prices tending to be higher in the rural parishes and towards the edge of Derby. The lower quartile house prices vary from £103,000 9 in the Swadlincote urban core to £144,000 in the rural parishes. 9 Source: Land Registry - lower quartile and average prices for the period 2006 – 2008 15
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