Issue - meetings

To receive a report by the Head of Housing Services on the development of the Cambridge Sub Region Housing Strategy.

Recommended that Full Council approve the Cambridge Sub-Region Housing Strategy 2004-8/9.

By means of a report by the Head of Housing Services (a copy of which is appended to the Minute Book) the Cabinet were acquainted with the development of the Cambridge Sub-Region Housing Strategy.

The Cabinet were advised that the Strategy had been endorsed by the Infra-Structure Partnership and that the following themes had been identified by the seven Member authorities.

¨  Growth

¨  Meeting housing need/homelessness

¨  Decent homes

¨  Supported housing; and

¨  Black and Minority Ethnic groups including travellers.

Having been advised that the Strategy had been developed by the Member authorities in consultation with stakeholders and that the document now submitted would influence government investment in the eastern region, including investment by the Regional Housing Board in the Cambridge Sub-Region area, it was

RESOLVED

  that the Cambridge Sub-Region Housing Strategy 2004-8/9 be approved.