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HOUSING

POLICY AND STRATEGY

Launch of East Ayrshire Local Housing Strategy

The final version of East Ayrshire's Local Housing Strategy was produced in April 2004.

East Ayrshire Local Housing Strategy 2004-2009

LHS Update 2005

LHS Update 2006

LHS Update 2007

You can access the full LHS by clicking on the appended documents menu. All documents are in PDF format.

If you require a paper copy of the Strategy or would like to send us your comments please contact the Local Housing Strategy Officer

Local Housing Strategy

The Housing (Scotland) Act 2001 made it a requirement of Local Authorities to produce a Local Housing Strategy by April 2004.

This requirement has afforded East Ayrshire Council, working in close partnership with its key stakeholders, the opportunity, to develop a strategic framework that outlines the challenges that face the local housing system across East Ayrshire, and sets out an action plan for addressing these.

This strategy takes account of key strategic objectives being set both nationally and locally, and the particular context within which the housing system in East Ayrshire operates.

At its heart lies four overarching aims which outline our vision of a successful housing system that meets the needs and aspirations of the people of East Ayrshire:

1. Support the Community Planning Partnership to Regenerate Disadvantages Areas and Develop Sustainable Communities
2. Improve Resident Satisfaction with home and surrounding Environment
3. ensure Equal Access to an adequate supply of good Quality Affordable accommodation
4. Ensure Individuals Requiring Support to live independently in the Community are enabled to do so.

An effective LHS should translate these aims into a set of long term targets against which performance and progress can be measured. In this way a series of strategic objectives have been developed that set out how the key issues and challenges, that need to be overcome to meet each aim, will be tackled. For each of these strategic objectives, strategy partners have set out their vision of success, i.e. what the outcome will be if the objectives is achieved, and developed a set of actions which detail the tasks that will be undertaken to achieve success and realise that vision.

Current guidance regarding the Local Housing Strategy can be seen on the Communities Scotland website which you can access from the links and appended documents menu opposite.