Decision - Consultation Draft: Housing Strategy 2008-2013: Healthy Homes, Healthy Lives, Healthy City (incorporating the draft Older People's Housing Strategy and draft LGBT People's Housing Strategy

1        That the draft Housing Strategy 2008-2013 (Appendix 1) incorporating the draft Older People’s Housing Strategy (Appendix 2) and draft LGBT People’s Housing Strategy (Appendix 3), be approved.

2        That the Assistant Director of Housing and the Housing Strategy Manager be authorised to carry out minor amendments to the draft strategies prior to publication. Any substantial changes will be agreed jointly with the Cabinet Member.

For the strategy to be a success it must reflect the needs, wishes and aspirations of a wide range of partners, stakeholders and the public. A phased approach to the development of the strategies combined with a staged approval process seeks to ensure a shared ownership of the strategy and desire to achieve positive outcomes for local people and the city that will achieve more by working in partnership that could be achieved otherwise.

Each stage of the strategy development process has resulted in the consideration and streamlining of a range of options. These drafts contain a wide range of proposals which will be further refined in light of the upcoming consultation findings to enable us to produce the final drafts and accompanying action plan in the new year.