Housing Strategy 2004/05 to 2006/07

The following sections outline the current Housing Strategy. For easier navigation the strategy has been divided into summaries of each section and appendix along with PDF files of each section.

Summary and overview

The Housing Strategy identifies Wolverhampton strategic housing partnership’s vision and direction for housing for the next three years.

The document builds on our achievements to date and supports the Council’s corporate priority to regenerate and sustain local neighbourhoods and it is also designed to help deliver key national, regional and sub regional strategies.

Developing the strategy has involved extensive consultation with partners, stakeholders and residents.

The Housing Strategy reviews housing and related issues across the City in both the public and private sectors.

It sets out agreed objectives and priorities for action, and sets out how these will be delivered. This is done through clear action plans that identify the financial and staffing resources needed to deliver key actions within agreed timescales

Government Office for the West Midlands has assessed the Housing Strategy 2004/05 to 2006/07 as ‘fit for purpose’; this is the national standard all local authority housing strategies must meet.

Further information regarding fit for purpose criteria is available from the Department of Communities and Local Government.

Our focus is now on delivering all the actions set out in the strategy, to achieve the City’s vision for housing.

Housing Strategy - Introduction

This summarises the progress made since the last strategy and describes the population and housing market trends likely to affect the need and demand for housing in Wolverhampton now, and for the next two years.

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Section 1

Sets out our housing vision and priorities and shows how the strategy is linked to, and helps deliver, key national, regional and local objectives

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Section 2

Each of the four priorities are considered in detail, setting out the issues addressed by each, and the action to be taken by the Council and its partners.

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Section 3

This provides information on the resources available to deliver the strategy.

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Section 4

The Housing Strategy action plan contains specific, measurable, agreed and realistic targets, with timescales for implementation.

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Appendix 1

Progress on the 2002/3 Housing Strategy targets

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Appendix 2

Issues raised by stakeholders and residents (Housing Strategy consultation 2003) - against the four key priorities laid out in the Housing Strategy.

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Appendix 3

Housing partnership framework - A table detailing all the key groups/networks, organisations and strategies that make up the housing partnership framework.

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Appendix 4

Housing market area by neighbourhood - six housing markets were defined for Wolverhampton. These are listed with the breakdown of the neighbourhoods within them.

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Appendix 5

Housing tenure and type breakdown by housing market areas - two tables comparing the six housing market areas by housing tenure and type. The data is taken from the Census 2001.

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Appendix 6

Wolverhampton area based regeneration map - illustrates the different regeneration zones across the City including the neighbourhood management pilot areas.

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