Glasgow’s Draft Housing Strategy

Glasgow’s Draft Housing Strategy is to be submitted to Glasgow City Council’s Executive Committee on 22nd September 2011. The document will be circulated for consultation following approval by the committee. The document sets out Glasgow’s housing investment strategy from 2011-2016 and includes various targets and measures to improve and increase Glasgow’s housing stock.

The overall vision is that “people will want to come to and stay in Glasgow, accessing a range of good quality, environmentally sustainable homes across tenures at all market levels. These homes should be warm, dry, appropriate to our people’s and communities’ needs and situated in a choice of attractive, well  managed, neighbourhoods of differing character which inspire a feeling of safety and with convenient access to good jobs, education, shopping, leisure and cultural activities."

They describe their underlying principles as equality, sustainability, health and partnership.

There are the 3 strategic themes:

Regeneration:     Increasing the supply and improving the quality of housing available to Glasgow’s people.

Accessibility:     Improving access to appropriate housing for Glasgow’s people.

Delivery:            Maximising resources, improving partnership working and effective monitoring.

The strategy sets out targets on the building of both social and private sector housing and includes measures to target carbon emissions. The authors note that fuel poverty is a growing concern among the most vulnerable city residents and intend to go some way to alleviate the financial burden of ‘continually escalating fuel prices” by ensuring homes are well insulated and energy efficient. They will prioritise equality groups, describing people in those groups as more likely to suffer from discrimination and material disadvantage than the average population.

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