The Ipswich Borough Council Housing Strategy has been revised and updated to reflect national and local developments; the requirement for all local authorities to have a separate Homelessness and Rough Sleeping Strategy and to incorporate our new strategic approaches to the Private Rented Sector and to older persons housing.

The updated Housing Strategy 2019-2024 will still comprise of our four identified priorities:

• Enabling building of houses of all tenures
• Improving access to and the quality of existing housing
• Meeting the housing needs of all communities and meeting the challenges of an ageing population.
• Preventing Homelessness and Rough Sleeping

This Strategy covers what the Council can either directly do or influence, and recognises the important contribution made by working together with our partners.

The Housing Strategy is underpinned by an Action Plan that will be reviewed quarterly to govern and monitor the progress being made against the four priorities.

Download the Ipswich Borough Council Housing Strategy here.

There is a suite of documents as appendices that support this Strategy and provide the factual backdrop to both the local and national current climate:

• Appendix 1 – Action Plan
• Appendix 2 – Ipswich Housing Report 2019
• Appendix 3 – The National Context
• Appendix 4 – The Local Context
• Appendix 5 – Links to other Strategies
• Appendix 6 – Stakeholder Event July 2016
• Appendix 7 – Older Persons Housing Review (Ipswich Borough Council Tenants)
• Appendix 8 – Housing Strategy Annual Report 2018
• Appendix 9 - Consultation Report

 An Annual Housing Strategy Review Report has been produced for 2019 and can be found here.