Issue - meetings

The Housing Strategy 2015 was approved by Cabinet in February 2015.  The strategy contains a commitment to annually review and assess progress against the targets, which this report seeks to do. 

Discussion:

The Head of Strategic Housing introduced this report which advised that the Housing Strategy 2015 contained a commitment to annually review and assess progress against the targets.

A Member referred to the Action Plan which showed that the majority of targets were on target to be delivered or had been delivered. He felt that this misrepresented the serious housing situation in Medway in terms of levels of homelessness, affordability and the lack of affordable homes. Another Member felt that there should be more milestones as most target dates were monitored annually or quarterly.

Decision:

The Committee noted the progress against the aims of the Housing Strategy.