Issue - meetings

Consider report by Service Director Regulatory Services.  (Copy attached.)

STRATEGIC HOUSING INVESTMENT PLAN PROGRESS FOR 2017/18

There had been circulated copies of a report by the Service Director of Regulatory Services advising of the affordable housing annual completions and progress made in the delivery of the Strategic Housing Investment Plan (SHIP) projects for the period 2017-18.  The report explained that the Strategic Housing Investment Plan (SHIP) was the sole document for targeting affordable housing investment in Scottish Borders.  This provided a rolling 5 year planning horizon of identified and prioritised affordable housing development intentions.  Current Scottish Government Guidance required that each Council submit a SHIP on an annual basis.  The Council’s current SHIP 2018-2023 was agreed by Council and submitted in November 2017 and had again received very positive feedback from Scottish Government Officials.   The report advised Members that for the financial period 2017-2018, 145 affordable houses weredelivered against envisaged projects set out in the current SHIP. This exceeded the Council’s Local Housing Strategy 2017-2022 (LHS) annual target of 128 new affordable homes and was more than the 83 homes originally envisaged in SHIP 2018/23 for 2017/18.   Members welcomed the report.

DECISION

AGREED to endorse the progress made in the delivery of affordable housing projects in 2017-2018.