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The Housing Strategy consultation has now closed.
Thank you to everyone who took part. All the feedback has been analysed and a summary of the findings is available here.
The findings were discussed by the Council's Places Overview and Scrutiny Committee in January 2025 and at Cabinet in March 2025. The Council’s Housing Strategy was approved by the Council’s Cabinet on 12 March 2025, and will be implemented in Summer 2025and will run until 2035.
We are developing a new Housing Strategy that sets a vision for the Council and its partners as we work to improve housing for all residents across the borough. Following our engagement earlier in the year we would like to hear your views on our draft strategy.
The Council's last Housing Strategy ran from 2014 - 2020 and our new strategy will take us forward running from 2025 - 2035.
How we developed the new strategy
We developed our new Housing Strategy through a series of workshops and a public engagement that ended in April 2024. This engagement helped us to understand which priorities for housing were most important to people. We used the feedback from this engagement to help us develop the draft strategy, which we are now consulting on.
You can find out more about the engagement on the strategy here.
Key priorities
The strategy seeks to set out a collaborative approach to ensuring there is a range of good quality, affordable housing and support that meets the needs of residents in Cheshire West and Chester over the next ten years.
There are three priorities in the draft strategy:
Support that enables residents to access the right home and live well.
Homes that are fit for now and ready for the future.
Affordable homes of all tenures across the borough.
Within the draft strategy for each priority there is further detail setting out what we want to achieve and how we will make a difference.
You can read the draft strategy here. This information is also available in web-accessible format here.
You can share your views on the draft strategy by:
Attending a drop-in session to talk to the Housing Team and give your views
What happens next
Your views are really important and what you tell us will be used to help shape the Council's new Housing Strategy. Once the consultation is closed your feedback will be used to refine the draft strategy which will then be shared with the Council's Cabinet in March 2025. You can stay up to date with the development of the new Housing Strategy here.
This consultation is open for responses until Tuesday 5th November
The Housing Strategy consultation has now closed.
Thank you to everyone who took part. All the feedback has been analysed and a summary of the findings is available here.
The findings were discussed by the Council's Places Overview and Scrutiny Committee in January 2025 and at Cabinet in March 2025. The Council’s Housing Strategy was approved by the Council’s Cabinet on 12 March 2025, and will be implemented in Summer 2025and will run until 2035.
We are developing a new Housing Strategy that sets a vision for the Council and its partners as we work to improve housing for all residents across the borough. Following our engagement earlier in the year we would like to hear your views on our draft strategy.
The Council's last Housing Strategy ran from 2014 - 2020 and our new strategy will take us forward running from 2025 - 2035.
How we developed the new strategy
We developed our new Housing Strategy through a series of workshops and a public engagement that ended in April 2024. This engagement helped us to understand which priorities for housing were most important to people. We used the feedback from this engagement to help us develop the draft strategy, which we are now consulting on.
You can find out more about the engagement on the strategy here.
Key priorities
The strategy seeks to set out a collaborative approach to ensuring there is a range of good quality, affordable housing and support that meets the needs of residents in Cheshire West and Chester over the next ten years.
There are three priorities in the draft strategy:
Support that enables residents to access the right home and live well.
Homes that are fit for now and ready for the future.
Affordable homes of all tenures across the borough.
Within the draft strategy for each priority there is further detail setting out what we want to achieve and how we will make a difference.
You can read the draft strategy here. This information is also available in web-accessible format here.
You can share your views on the draft strategy by:
Attending a drop-in session to talk to the Housing Team and give your views
What happens next
Your views are really important and what you tell us will be used to help shape the Council's new Housing Strategy. Once the consultation is closed your feedback will be used to refine the draft strategy which will then be shared with the Council's Cabinet in March 2025. You can stay up to date with the development of the new Housing Strategy here.
This consultation is open for responses until Tuesday 5th November
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There will be three face to face drop-in sessions taking place in Chester, Ellesmere Port and Winsford where you can come and talk to us about the new Housing Strategy.
You can come and talk to us on:
Friday 11 October between 10am and 12pm at Winsford Community Centre, High Street, Winsford, CW7 2AS
Tuesday 29 October between 11am and 1pm at Ellesmere Port Library, Civic Way, Ellesmere Port, CH65 0BG
Monday 4 November between 9am and 10:30am at Harold Tomlins Centre, 24 Grosvenor Street, Chester, CH1 2DD
Monday 4 November between 1pm and 2pm at Crossroads Community Hub, 125 Boughton, Chester, CH3 5BH
There will be three face to face drop-in sessions taking place in Chester, Ellesmere Port and Winsford where you can come and talk to us about the new Housing Strategy.
You can come and talk to us on:
Friday 11 October between 10am and 12pm at Winsford Community Centre, High Street, Winsford, CW7 2AS
Tuesday 29 October between 11am and 1pm at Ellesmere Port Library, Civic Way, Ellesmere Port, CH65 0BG
Monday 4 November between 9am and 10:30am at Harold Tomlins Centre, 24 Grosvenor Street, Chester, CH1 2DD
Monday 4 November between 1pm and 2pm at Crossroads Community Hub, 125 Boughton, Chester, CH3 5BH
Telephone:0151 356 6410 to speak to someone in the Housing Strategy, team, and quote: ‘Housing Strategy Consultation'
Paper copies of this consultation are available in libraries and on request using the contact details above. Alternative formats are also available on request.
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Keep up to date with the development of the new Housing Strategy.
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