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Regional Housing Strategy
Updated on 15/02/2010
Increasingly the planning for new housing and regeneration takes place at regional level. The impact of an ageing society needs to built into regional strategies The resources listed below include guides for sustainable planning as well as a survey of progress.
- A Guide to Age Friendly Communities in the North The Northern Housing Consortium (NHC) recently launched this guide which explores and seeks to understand and respond to the needs of older people in the North, and map out the steps the housing sector...
- Flexicare housing in Hertfordshire Hertfordshire County Council and its partners have published a useful strategy on Accommodation Services for Older People 2009. Its use of Flexicare represents a model of extra care housing that comprises...
- Putting Older People First in the South West - A regional housing market assessment The South West Housing LIN has led a comprehensive analysis of the issues that will shape housing with support in the region over the coming decades. Working with the Housing Corporation, the LIN has...
- Valuing older people - the Mayor of London's Older People Strategy Published by Greater London Authority, the Mayor of London's vision of a London where older people have choice and control over their lives. The strategy covers many aspects of older people's lives and...
- Towards lifetime neighbourhoods: designing sustainable communities for all - a discussion paper Produced by the International Longevity Centre UK and the DCLG this paper considers how as people age their needs can continue to be met within their neighbourhoods. The paper describes Lifetime Neighbourhoods...
- Sustainable planning for housing in an Ageing Society - guide for regional level strategies A guide for use in the development of regional housing and spatial strategies, to complement 'Lifetime homes, Lifetime Neighbourhoods: A National Strategy for Housing in an Ageing Society'. It aims to...
- A survey of regional housing strategies and regional spatial strategies: are these addressing population ageing? Care & Repair England carried out a survey of current Regional Housing Strategies (RHSs) and Regional Spatial Strategies (RSSs) to consider whether population ageing is being adequately addressed...
- Extra care housing, development planning, control and management. RTPI Practice note 8 This Good Practice Note aims to support urban and regional planning professionals engaged in forward planning and development management to respond to the growing demand for extra care housing in England....
