The Housing Strategy Team works with a range of partners to tackle housing issues within Tamworth and the wider sub-region. It is responsible for contributing to, developing and implementing a range of housing related strategies in partnership with other agencies and residents of Tamworth.

Key functions of the housing strategy team include:

• Preparation of the Councils Healthier Housing Strategy, its delivery and monitoring of the strategy
• Preparation of the Council's Homelessness Strategy and monitoring the action plan
• Monitoring the performance of Registered Providers (Housing Associations) operating in Tamworth
• Working with partners to develop a range of affordable housing to meet identified local need
• Collecting and maintaining information about the current and future housing needs of the residents of Tamworth
• Working with colleagues in planning to ensure that policies meet identified housing need
• Our Housing Strategy 2011- 2014 

Tamworth Borough Councils Healthier Housing Strategy sets out the vision for Housing and Health for the next three years and is supported by an Action Plan which will be updated annually.  It is envisaged that by improving the housing options, conditions and neighbourhoods within the Borough via the delivery of this strategy , this will lead to improved health for the residents. The Strategy covers the period 2011 - 2014.   

Local Investment Plan

The Southern Staffordshire authorities of Cannock Chase, Lichfield, South Staffordshire and Tamworth have developed a Local Investment Plan (LIP) in partnership with the Homes and Communities Agency (HCA) and our Registered Provider partners (Housing Associations). The LIP represents the joining up of our strategic, economic and housing strategies and priorities, which have all been developed locally in conjunction with the local community. Its role is to set out how we will work together during for the period from 2011 - 2014 to deliver the best possible outcomes for each Local Authority and how we will work together on agreed priorities for regeneration and housing within the LIP area.

Keys areas covered by the Local Investment Plan are:

• Our vision and wider strategic context for the investment decisions in housing and regeneration

• Thematic priorities that reflect the issues identified in our Sustainable Community Strategies

• Spatial priorities where investment in regeneration and development, including significant investment in housing will be required

• The investment and delivery mechanisms required to deliver our vision

• How it will be governed and managed

• How the LIP will be monitored and reviewed

Do you have any comments or suggestions regarding our service - If you do then we would like to hear from you ...

If you have any comments or suggestions concerning any of the information above or contained within the attached documents or you would like to raise any other housing issues you feel are important to Tamworth please contact us at:

Email: housingstrategy@tamworth.gov.uk

Telephone: 01827 709700    Fax: 01827 709277

Or write to us at:
Housing Strategy,
Tamworth Borough Council,
3rd Floor Marmion House, Lichfield Street, Tamworth, Staffordshire, B79 7BZ