A Fantastic Milestone to End the Year!
We’re thrilled to share some great news as we wrap up 2025: The Housing Growth Procurement Strategy has officially been approved! This marks a significant step forward and sets us up an exciting year ahead.
In January 2025 Cabinet approved the Housing Growth Plan 2025-31. The Plan sets out how the Council will facilitate new housing delivery across the city to work towards the new housing targets set out in the updated National Planning Policy Framework. The Plan also outlines the Councils own house building programme, which sets an ambitious target of delivering 840 new Council homes over the plan period.
Putting in place a robust procurement strategy will enable the Housing & Neighbourhoods service to ensure that schemes are given the best chance to be viable and deliverable.
With this approval, we can now hit the ground running. The next phase will focus on:
- Launching a tender process to appoint a lead development partner.
- Developing a small sites framework to support future delivery.
These will be major pieces of work throughout next year, but our goal is clear: implement our growth plan in the most effective and deliverable way possible.
Here’s to a productive and impactful 2026! We have a fantastic team, and I’m confident we’ll make this happen.
