Consultation event held for draft housing strategy
We’re inviting residents to come along to a consultation event on Saturday 11 May to have their say on the city’s draft housing strategy.
The draft housing strategy sets out our vision for housing services and support over the next few years.
The consultation event is taking place at Hove Town Hall from 10.30am to 12 noon on Saturday 11 May.
If you’d like to come along, please register your place via our Your Voice online engagement platform. Or you can email housingstrategy@brighton-hove.gov.uk or call us 01273 290555.
You can also have your say on the draft housing strategy through our online consultation.
The consultation is open until Sunday 19 May.
Draft housing strategy consultation
The draft strategy outlines our proposed priorities for the next 5 years around our ambition to tackling the housing crisis in the city.
It is about more than council housing services. The aim is to shape and deliver a shared long-term agenda with residents, local partner organisations and the wider community.
The housing strategy supports the delivery of the Council Plan 2023 to 2027, setting out a vision for a better Brighton & Hove for all.
The 5 priorities we have identified will help focus our efforts to deliver accessible, affordable and high-quality homes for everyone in Brighton & Hove are to:
- Improve housing quality, safety and sustainability
- Deliver the homes our city needs
- Prevent homelessness and meet housing need
- Support independence and improved health and wellbeing for all
- Provide resident focused housing services
Consultation responses will be fed into the final version of the housing strategy, due to be discussed by councillors in the summer.
Putting people at the heart of housing
Councillor Gill Williams, chair of the Housing and New Homes Committee, said: “We are committed to putting people at the heart of housing in the city, everyone deserves a decent, affordable, and secure home.
“We are in the midst of an unprecedented housing crisis and we recognise there are many challenges.
“This is why it is so important we work together and input of the city’s residents and our partner organisations is vital in helping us shape this strategy and achieve those goals and we want you to take part and help shape the future of housing in our city.
“I invite everyone who can make it to come and have their say on the strategy or take part in the online consultation and share their opinions, wisdom and experience to help us set our vision for housing in the city for the next 5 years and beyond.”
