What we will focus on to achieve this ambition

• Examining the issues relating to affordable housing in Bath and North East Somerset.

• Making sure that local needs for affordable housing are properly understood at national and regional levels.

• Making the most of opportunities to provide new affordable housing.

• Applying, at regional level, for funding for affordable housing.

• Recognising the different needs of villages, market towns and larger towns when planning to meet both the need and demand for housing.

• Using the Local Plan and suitable development sites to provide affordable housing.

• Making sure the housing needs of ‘key‘ workers (such as police officers, nurses and Social Services staff) are properly understood and met.

• Working with higher- and further-education providers to meet the housing needs of students.

• Making best use of existing resources, including empty or under-used housing and other property, paying particular attention to the potential for bringing together land that could be used for housing.

• Applying high standards of design and environmental quality to housing developments, including following the Secure by Design standards to prevent crime.

• Promoting and enforcing good standards in private-sector housing.

• Supporting older and vulnerable people in their own homes and promoting independent living.

• Promoting and maintaining balanced communities through neighbourhoods where there is a mixture of privately owned, rented and shared-ownership homes.

• Encouraging and supporting residents and communities to become more actively involved in making their communities nice places to live.

• Preventing homelessness by providing good standards of temporary accommodation and support to help people find and keep permanent  homes.

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