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The Housing Strategy Team is responsible for producing the council's Housing Strategy, as required by Government.
The Housing Strategy vision is to ensure that all households in the East Riding have access to appropriate and affordable housing with associated services, in sustainable communities.
The Strategy identifies needs and issues across all tenures and sets out plans and resources required to tackle them. Achievements are monitored through the Housing Strategy Action Plan. The Team plays a significant role in sub-regional and regional housing policy development, representing the Council on the Humber Housing Partnership and the Yorkshire and Humber Housing Forum, and the Regional Housing Board.
Other work streams include partnership working with housing associations and other providers to enable the provision of affordable and specialist housing to meet identified local needs; and with the East Riding of Yorkshire Primary Care Trust and other agencies to identify health related initiatives in the context of national and local policies to meet local needs and respond to the preventative agenda.
The team plays a crucial role in securing funding from the Regional Housing Board and from other sources to address housing issues and priorities.
Housing Strategy Consultation 2008
The Council has produced draft Housing and Homelessness Strategies for consultation.
Both documents can be viewed by clicking the links below:
A summary of the consultation responses received on both the Housing and Homelessness Strategies can be found below along with a summary of the Health Impact Assessment carried out on both Strategies by the NHS East Riding of Yorkshire.
Policies and Strategies:
Housing-related Research:
Homebuy
The Homebuy scheme enables people to buy a home who otherwise couldn't afford to do so. There are 3 types of Homebuy:
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New Build Homebuy - enables you to buy a percentage of a newly built home. The other percentage is owned by a Housing Association.
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Open Market Homebuy - enables you to buy a percentage of a property on the open market.
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Social Homebuy - Not currently offered in the East Riding.
The Homebuy scheme is aimed at Local Authority/Housing Association tenants, those on the Local Authority Housing Register and those on low incomes. However applicants must be able to finance either 75% or 82.5% of the purchase price through a mortgage and/or savings.
Each region has a "Homebuy Agent" through which applications for Homebuy schemes can be made. For East Riding the Homebuy Agent is Joseph Rowntree Housing Trust.
For more information or to apply visit Homebuy Scheme, or you can contact them via the following:
Tel: 0800 633 56 70
Email: homebuy@jrf.org.uk
Humber Housing Partnership
East Riding of Yorkshire Council works with neighbouring authorities and other partners in the region to deliver housing priorities and monitor housing investment through the Humber Housing Partnership.
View details of the Partnership and download minutes of previous meetings:
Contact Details
John Craig
Housing and Spatial Strategy Manager
East Riding of Yorkshire Council,
County Hall, Beverley
HU17 9BA
Tel: 01482 391732
Fax: 01482 391731
Email: housing.strategy@eastriding.gov.uk
Other contacts:
Hilary Bardon
Partnership Enabling Officer
Tel: 01482 396112
Helen McEgan
Housing Strategy Information Officer
Tel: 01482 396111
Karla Robinson
Assistant Property Officer
Tel: 01482 393922
Julie Arnold
Housing and Health Development Officer
Tel: 01482 396113
