Issue - meetings

To consider a report by the Head of Housing Services seeking endorsement of the Cambridge Sub-Region Housing Strategy.

(Copies of the Strategy have been circulated previously)

Recommended to full Council that the Cambridge Sub –Region Housing Strategy 2003/06 be endorsed.

With the aid of a report by the Head of Housing Services (a copy of which is appended in the Minute Book) the Cabinet considered the content of the Cambridge Sub – Region Housing Strategy 2003/06.

By way of background, Members were reminded that the new Regional Housing Forum for the East of England had requested sub-regions to draft housing strategies as part of a wider strategy for the East of England.  Subsequently, eight local authorities had participated in the strategy, assimilating housing data in order to identify sub-regional needs and priorities.  Members were informed that there would be a new single housing investment pot for the East of England for which funding was likely to be also allocated on the basis of sub–regional housing strategy submissions.  Having been advised that the structure and role of the new Regional Housing Forum would be reported to the Cabinet as and when they became clearer, it was

RESOLVED

  that full Council be recommended to endorse the Cambridge Sub –Region Housing Strategy 2003/06.