3. Housing and associated development in Surrey
VISION
By 2020 it will be easier for people to find accommodation to suit all needs. Arrangements to protect the rented housing stock will have been developed and the public services, in partnership with housing associations, will have developed a range of attractive, quality housing options. These developments will have good supporting infrastructure and meet high environmental, social and technological standards. People in Surrey will have worked with public services and businesses to reconcile the challenge of protecting the environment whilst at the same time ensuring that it is easier for young people and key workers in particular to live in the county.
SHORT-TERM ACTION
- To make best use of national and regional funding to increase the supply of affordable housing
AVARAGE HOUSE PRICES
APRIL-JUNE 2004
A house in Surrey costs a lot more
AGENDA
- To actively campaign to raise awareness at national and regional level about the issues facing the county, particularly in terms of young people being unable to afford to remain in Surrey and to lobby accordingly.
- To work together to promote resource efficiency in new and existing houses
- To work together to develop practical ways of tackling the problems through better use of partnership resource, innovative policies on providing help to employees on housing costs, identifying suitable areas for housing development
PARTNERS
- Surrey Chief Housing Officers Group
- Surrey Boroughs Key Worker Housing Group
INDICATORS
- Ratio of house prices to income in Surrey
- Levels of unfit housing
"My daughter is training to be a teacher and she cannot afford to buy her own home within the county. She is likely to move to Sussex and drive into Surrey to work."
" There would be more fatalities on the operating table because a cleaner hasn't turned up and cleaners are not considered for key worker housing."
