The Housing Strategy has been developed to identify the key housing priorities for the borough and the measures required to deliver them by the Council and other key public and private stakeholders.

The Housing Strategy identifies key interventions required to meet current and future housing need in Trafford and to address a number of supply and demand challenges. The interventions have been identified in the context of the Council’s Corporate Objectives, Trafford Vision 2031, GM growth ambitions as articulated in the GMSF and GMS, and discussions with key stakeholders.

The Housing Strategy coupled with the Vision, Corporate Objectives, Trafford Economic and Housing Growth Framework and the wider GM strategic arena, forms a comprehensive and fully joined up approach to delivering future housing growth to benefit Trafford’s residents.

That the Draft Trafford Housing Strategy 2018-2023, be approved for the purposes of consultation.

An extensive consultation exercise has already been carried out and it is now prudent to consult on the draft Strategy. In light of Purdah, it is proposed to commence an online consultation for a four week period starting from Monday 19 February. It will be posted on the Council’s website and will be open to stakeholders and residents to submit their comments. Following the consultation, the Strategy will be amended if necessary to take account of any valid comments. It is proposed that the Executive then formally approves the Strategy.

Other options are not to adopt the Strategy or to adopt a different strategy. The absence of an overarching Strategy for the delivery of housing growth across Trafford will not provide the Council with the mechanism to meet, and plan for, current and future housing need. In addition, it will not provide the detailed interventions required to support housing growth across the borough which is why the Strategy is proposed. The proposed consultation may lead to refinements to the draft Strategy.

None.