During the spring Hull City Council’s Cabinet approved a Housing Growth Plan for 2025 – 2031, which outlines plans to facilitate the delivery of 5,958 new homes to the city’s housing stock over the next six years from all sources. Of these homes, 1,452 will be in the affordable homes category in order to meet identified need – it is estimated 800 will be for rent from the Council – and the remainder for sale or rent on the open market.
The outline guidance for the Social and Affordable Homes Programme was published by Homes England in November – this sets out how £39bn worth of affordable housing grant will be distributed to Registered Providers of Social Housing over the next 10 years; Officers are aligning Growth Plan sites and opportunities with that programme ahead of the full guidance/prospectus being published at a later date. If successful, these much-needed funds will provide grants to help towards the total cost of building new homes and make them financially viable.
A housing development framework is being presented to Cabinet in December 2025 which sets out how the 800+ Council homes referred to in the Housing Growth Plan will be procured and delivered, prior to which is a separate item on the agenda of this meeting of the Commission to enable pre-decision scrutiny.
Of those committed to in the Growth Plan 228 Council homes are already on site or complete.
Our Small Sites Programme continues to make a valuable contribution to the overall Growth Plan. An update on this is included as a separate item on the agenda of this meeting of the Commission.
Housing Strategy for 2023–2030: Building Homes, Strengthening Communities.
TheHousing Growth Plan is underpinned by the Housing Strategy for 2023–2030: Building Homes, Strengthening Communities.
Working Together for Hull’s Future
This strategy isn’t just the council’s—it belongs to the whole city. We’ll work with housing providers, developers, community groups, and residents to make Hull a place where everyone has a home that meets their needs.
You can view the full Hull City Council Housing Strategy for 2023–2030 here:
Housing Strategy 2023 to 2030