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Housing
Housing is important to local government for many reasons – people’s lives and jobs and the quality of places.
How we support housing
The LG Group lobbies on your behalf for:
- implementation of a devolutionary approach to planning and to housing delivery and finance
- new approaches to planning and managing housing and infrastructure spending.
We can help you through:
- strategic housing peer reviews, facilitation and tailored peer support from expert councillor and officer peers to help councils improve service delivery and achieve better outcomes
- peer support for managers of planning services.
“I wish to place on record my thanks for the professional manner in which you have dealt with such a potentially difficult matter which was of national importance for enforcing bodies.”
Peter Tuck, Private Sector Housing Services, Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council
Examples of our work
Publications
Local housing – local solutions: the case for self-determination – on the LG Association website
Planning together – on the Planning Advisory Service website
Housing – fire and safety: guidance on fire safety in residential accomodation – on the LG Regulation website
Online forums and communities of practice (CoPs)
Guidance and good practice
Planning Advisory Service website
Housing Knowledge – on the LG Improvement and Development website
Strategic housing – on the LG Improvement and Development website
Strategic housing good practice guides – on the LG Improvement and Development website
Planning service benchmark – on the Planning Advisory Service website
Events and programmes
LGA annual rural commission, conference and exhibition
Contact
Martin Wheatley
Programme Director, Local Government Association
Email: martin.wheatley@local.gov.uk
Telephone: 020 7664 3286
For councillors
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Community leadership and the strategic housing role in local government
Describing how councillors should integrate strategies for housing, planning, economic development and regeneration.
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Private sector housing: a councillor handbook
A checklist to help councils dealing with private housing during the downturn.
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Positive engagement
A pocket guide for planning councillors on talking to developers without risking impartiality.
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