Introduction from Cllr John Harrison
Everyone deserves to have a safe, secure, and affordable home and the Our North Tyneside Plan 2021-2025 clearly sets out our ambition to ‘Build a better North Tyneside’.
Increasing costs of homeownership, a reduction of social housing stock due to the Right to Buy and increasing demand for social housing, has seen the private rented sector more than double in the last decade accounting for almost one fifth of homes in the UK. Our Private Sector Housing Plan aims to drive up standards of accommodation and create safe, clean, and healthy communities across the borough.
Poor quality private housing and fuel poverty have a detrimental effect on the health and wellbeing of people living in these homes and the general appearance of an area. This plan outlines our approach to regulating and enhancing private sector housing for current and future residents.
The Private Sector Housing Plan supports the delivery of our 2023-28 Housing Strategy and is built around four key themes:
- Improving our private rented sector
- Tackling derelict and long-term empty properties
- Enabling safe and independent living
- A Greener North Tyneside – Improving Energy Efficiency in Private Sector Homes
Each theme is based around a set of strategic priorities that will be delivered over the 4-years of the plan and supported by a Delivery Programme that will be refreshed on an annual basis.
Councillor John Harrison
Cabinet Member for Housing