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Housing Strategy Documents

Strategic Housing

View the Strategic Housing Partnership Document for Worcestershire

Take a read of Worcestershire's Strategic Direction for Tackling Homelessness 2018-2021. The document sets out the vision "to create the right home environment for Worcestershire residents that is essential to their health, wealth and wellbeing, throughout life."

Find out more about Worcestershire's Strategic Direction for Tackling Homelessness 2018-2021 here.

View the Interim Worcestershire Homeless Strategy Action Plan (311KB)

View the Worcestershire Homelessness Review (1MB)

Read the council’s proposed new allocation policy (expected implementation date January 2020)

Housing Assistance Policy

The Housing Assistance Policy, which commenced on 1st January , sets out the basis on which Wyre Forest District Council will offer financial assistance (“Housing Assistance”) for works of adaption, repair or renewal in the private housing sector.

All housing assistance approved under this policy is either discretionary and are therefore subject to the District Council having sufficient funds or mandatory Disabled Facility Grants.
Housing Assistance Policy 2018 (1MB)

The Wyre Forest integrated dwelling level housing stock modelling and database for Wyre Forest District Council is detailed in this client report:

Wyre Forest integrated Housing Stock Modelling Database Report

As well as our strategies we also have a duty to assess housing needs and recent documents are included below.

Objective Assessment of Housing Needs

HMA Monitoring

In 2011 the Localism Act placed a duty on all local authorities to develop and publish a Tenancy Strategy (276K).