Homes for All: Quality Living, Affordable Housing

Improve social housing performance through more active engagement with providers by:

• Actively engaging with local social housing providers to improve the quantity and quality of social housing
• Discussing the barriers and issues with improving quality of local homes with the larger local social housing providers and other landlords
• The Overview and Scrutiny Committee increasing the number of local social housing providers it scrutinises each year

• Reduction in number of social housing complaints reported to the Housing Ombudsman
• Increased number of notices issued by the Council
• Reduction in the number of private sector complaints
• Reduction in proportion of social housing and private rented properties failing to achieve the Decent Homes Standard
• Increase in proportion of social housing and private rented properties achieving EPC C
• Increase in the number of local social homes.
• Reduction in the proportion of residents who believe affordable decent housing needs improving
• Increase in proportion of residents who are satisfied with Council’s housing service

Intervene to improve the quality of private rented sector homes in the borough which do not meet acceptable living standards by:

• Engaging local private sector landlords to provide advice and raise awareness on local issues
• Taking enforcement action about serious housing condition problems and aiming to be an early adopter of the powers in the Renters Rights Bill that will improve our ability to address issues with housing conditions

Provide good quality temporary accommodation by:

• Collaborating with local social housing providers to enable and facilitate better temporary accommodation provision

• Enough temporary accommodation units available to meet local needs
• Temporary accommodation units achieve the Decent Homes Standard and EPC C

Make it easier to understand how the Council allocates social housing by:

• Considering options to refine, clarify and improve the existing housing allocation scheme, and also improve how social housing allocation decisions are communicated

• Increase the proportion of residents who are satisfied with Council’s housing service

Progress a new Local Plan that maximises delivery of new homes by:

• Producing a new Local Plan to guide the location, scale and type of future development. The current Local Plan was adopted in February 2019 and the Council will start to develop a new plan this year

• Decrease the proportion of residents who believe affordable decent housing needs improving
• Deliver additional affordable housing
• Demonstrate a five-year supply of deliverable housing land and meet the Government’s housing targets for the area

Regenerate council-owned brownfield land with new and affordable homes by:

• Maximising use of Farnborough Civic Quarter and other council land for new affordable and keyworker housing by exploring the use of the Homes England Affordable Homes Programme