The London Housing Board is responsible for producing the London Regional Housing Strategy. The Board comprises Government Office for London, Greater London Authority, Housing Corporation, London Councils, London Development Agency and English Partnerships. It is chaired by Liz Meek, Regional Director of Government Offices for London.
The Board was established in February 2003 following the Deputy Prime Minister's announcement of the Sustainable Communities Action Programme “Sustainable Communities: Building for The Future” - that all regions in England would establish regional housing boards to produce regional housing strategies and advise Ministers on the allocation of funding from the Single Regional Pot for housing investment. For further information, please see link below.
The Board meets regularly and details of its meetings and papers can be accessed at papers from the London Housing Board and its sub-groups. To view the papers, please see link below.
The Board has established two sub-groups the Strategy Working Group and the Funding Sub-group which are responsible for co-ordinating the production of the London Housing Strategy and developing proposals for allocating resources from the London regional housing pot.
London Housing Strategy 2003
In August 2003 the London Housing Board published the first London Housing Strategy 2003: Homes and Communities in London and submitted funding recommendations to Ministers. These documents can be viewed through the links below. Keith Hill wrote to the Board on 2 December 2003 in response to those recommendations, and again on 12 February 2004 setting out plans for the Key Worker Programme - which can be viewed via the links below.
London has been allocated £2.1 billion funding for housing over the two years 2004/5 and 2005/6, including funding for three discretionary funding streams established by the Board.
London Housing Strategy 2005-16
The London Housing Board has now published its long term housing Strategy Capital Homes: London Housing Strategy 2005-16 . This can be viewed through the link below. The Strategy was underpinned by a comprehensive evidence base produced for the Board by the Greater London Authority.
The Board consulted extensively in developing the Strategy. This process started with an initial consultation on the Key Issues that the Strategy should address in June 2004.
This was followed by a formal consultation on the draft that began with the London Housing Conference on 12 November 2004 and closed on Friday 4 February 2005. The draft Strategy can be found on the link below: Draft for Consultation. Responses to the draft Strategy can be found at the link below: Responses to Consultation: London Housing Strategy 2005-2016.
London Housing Board’s Funding recommendations to Ministers 2006-08
The London Housing Board has finalized and submitted to DCLG Ministers its recommendations for the allocation of housing investment from the £2.279 billion London Regional Housing Pot. The funding recommendations can be viewed at the link below London Regional Housing Pot 2006-08: Funding Recommendations.
Ministers’ decisions on the Board’s funding recommendations are expected later in July.
