| Increase the number, quality and types of homes |
- Deliver 30% affordable housing across all our own housing sites.
- Deliver 380 affordable homes.
- Improve existing Council homes to keep them in good repair and improve energy efficiency.
- Build new Council homes for our residents.
- Ensure all new homes are designed to a high quality across all tenures.
- Continue to improve and modernise available housing for older people.
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| Prevent households from experiencing homelessness |
- Work with partners to Implement the 2020-23 Homelessness and Rough Sleeping Strategy action plan.
- Intervene early to prevent homelessness and work in partnership with other organisations to sustain people's accommodation.
- Tackle rough sleeping in the borough.
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| Create new communities and adopt a new Local Plan that delivers jobs, homes and the infrastructure to meet the borough’s future needs |
- Create a Development Plan Document for Tendring Colchester Borders Garden Community.
- Establish a Delivery Vehicle and investment package for the next phase of the Tendring Colchester Borders Garden Community.
- Develop the Colchester Northern Gateway as a sustainable place to live, work and play.
- Ensure the Council has a good supply of land available for new homes and business.
- Create great places to live through the provision of new homes with infrastructure and facilities that support sustainable living and promote health and wellbeing.
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