Five year housing strategy approved
The plan supports the delivery of the Corporate plan and will prioritise:
- Working with local housing providers to significantly ramp up delivery of high quality, affordable and low carbon homes
- Working with housing providers to make better use of council owned land to build more social and mixed tenure housing
- Working closely with Homes England and GMCA to maximise investment in housing in the city
- Working closely with private landlords and tenants to minimise the risk of homelessness through providing the right support at the right time
- Working with landlords to drive up housing standards in the private rented sector as part of Greater Manchester’s Good Landlord Charter
Bringing more long-term empty properties back into use - Working with housing providers to promote net zero standards, while working with partners to improve the energy efficiency of existing homes through retrofitting
- Working to improve the attractiveness and safety of local neighbourhoods
Working with housing partners to seek investment in quality green infrastructure
A new five year strategy has been approved to improve housing in the city.
The plan will prioritise the council working closely with Homes England and the Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA) to maximise investment in housing in the city.
Councillors approved the Good Homes in Good Places: Salford’s Good Homes Strategy 2025-2030 at the Cabinet Meeting on Tuesday 28 May.
Salford City Mayor Paul Dennett said: “The overall aim of this strategy is to significantly ramp up the number of high quality, affordable and low carbon homes for local people. And we are very ambitious with this - a priority for the council I set at the last election. Our residents were a key part of the creation of this new strategy.
“Local people are desperate for affordable homes to live in and we will work hard to provide more homes. Our own housing company, Dérive, has provided almost 380 high quality, affordable homes since 2019. This is made up of more than 230 social rent homes and more than 125 affordable homes. And we have supported in the development of almost 2,000 affordable homes in the city in the same period.
“We will work even more intensively with local housing providers to make better use of council owned land to build social and mixed tenure housing. And we will bring more empty properties back into use, creating places for people to call home.
“A big part of our work is to build energy efficient homes and retrofit existing homes, to reduce the energy bills for our residents. This all fits in with our plan to be a carbon neutral city by 2038.”
There are approximately more than 5,000 live applications on the housing register each day with typically less than 900 homes a year becoming available for Salford residents.
Councillor Tracy Kelly, Deputy City Mayor and Lead Member for Lead Member for Housing and Anti-Poverty, said: “The demands for housing nationally is incredible and this is the same in Salford. So we are tackling this head on. We have a planned pipeline of 557 new, social and affordable accommodation for 2025 / 2026.
“And we remain committed to providing homes for our more vulnerable residents such as supported housing as well as accessible and adapted homes which are suitable for people with limited mobility and those who use wheelchairs.”
Read the full report here: Cabinet Housing Strategy
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Councillor Tracy Kelly is the Lead Member for Housing and Anti-Poverty, she is also the Statutory Deputy City Mayor.