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Housing Strategy

All councils in England have a duty under the Local Government Act 2003, to produce and publish a housing strategy setting out its key priorities for housing. As the local housing authority, Craven District Council's Housing Strategy contributes towards the Council's vision of 'ensuring sustainable towns and villages with access to suitable housing and excellent local services'.

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Craven is a partner in the North Yorkshire Strategic Housing Partnership which comprises the other six North Yorkshire borough and district  housing authorities, the City of York Council, North Yorkshire County Council and the North York Moors and Yorkshire Dales National Parks. 
The Partnership has developed North Yorkshire's first single housing strategy.  The Vision for the new Strategy is,  "To make York and North Yorkshire an inclusive place where everyone can have access to decent affordable homes and effective support when they need it."

The Strategy's four key priorities are:

  • Enabling the provision of more affordable homes
  • Reducing homelessness
  • Improving access to housing services
  • Making best use of the existing housing stock

The basis for the strategy is the North Yorkshire Investment Plan 2008-2011, agreed by members of the North Yorkshire Strategic Housing Board, focusing on the following key regional priorities:
  • Creating better places
  • Delivering better homes, choice and opportunities
  • Fair access

This strategy will be the principal tool for directing future housing investment across the sub region and will form the framework around which all our housing policies and initiatives will be developed.

             
The Action Plans

The North Yorkshire Housing Strategy is supported by a North Yorkshire Action Plan which will ensure delivery of the Strategy.  This action plan sets out what the Partnership intends to achieve through the Strategy and the key mechanisms for delivery of these ambitions.

It is recognised that each local authority, whilst sharing some common issues, has issues that need to be addressed at a local level.  Therefore, following agreement of the North Yorkshire Action Plan, each authority developed its own Action Plan.  After consultations with stakeholders and interested parties, Craven developed a set of actions in addition to those within the North Yorkshire Action Plan.