Issue - meetings

To consider a report of the Cabinet Member for Communities & Housing.

The report details the refreshed Housing Plan for Stockport which is a statutory requirement for the Council to have a strategy for housing in the borough which is informed by the Housing Needs Assessment and sets out clear priorities. The supporting delivery plan to the One Stockport Borough Plan, the Stockport Housing Plan will play a vital role in setting out how the priorities of the Borough Plan will be achieved and will also inform the development of the Local Plan by identifying the key housing priorities for the borough.

The Cabinet is recommended to endorse and adopt the Plan. 

Officer contact: Mark Glynn on 0161 474 3700 or email: mark.glynn@stockport.gov.uk

The Leader of the Council (Councillor Mark Hunter) submitted a report of the Cabinet Member for Communities & Housing (copies of which had been circulated) detailing the refreshed Housing Plan for Stockport, fulfilling the Council’s statutory requirement for the Council to have a strategy for housing in the borough which was informed by the Housing Needs Assessment and setting out clear priorities.

RESOLVED – That the refreshed Housing Plan for Stockport be approved and adopted.

To consider a report of the Director for Place Management.

The report details the refreshed Housing Plan for Stockport which is a statutory requirement for the Council to have a strategy for housing in the borough which is informed by the Housing Needs Assessment and sets out clear priorities. The supporting delivery plan to the One Stockport Borough Plan, the Stockport Housing Plan will play a vital role in setting out how the priorities of the Borough Plan will be achieved and will also inform the development of the Local Plan by identifying the key housing priorities for the borough. 

The Scrutiny Committee is recommended to review, comment on and endorse the report.

Officer contact: Andy Kippax on Tel: 0161 474 4319 or by email on

andy.kippax@stockport.gov.uk.

A representative of the Director for Place Management submitted a report (copies of which had been circulated) detailing the refreshed Housing Plan for Stockport fulfilling the statutory requirement for the Council to have a strategy for housing in the borough which was informed by the Housing Needs Assessment and setting out clear priorities.

The supporting delivery plan to the One Stockport Borough Plan, the Stockport Housing Plan will play a vital role in setting out how the priorities of the Borough Plan would be achieved and would also inform the development of the Local Plan by identifying the key housing priorities for the borough.

The Cabinet Member for Communities & Housing (Councillor Helen Foster-Grime) attended the meeting to respond to questions from the Scrutiny Committee.

The following comments were made/ issues raised:-

·         Clarity was requested in relation to the statement in the report that 20,000 new homes were needed following the pausing of the consultation on the Local Plan as a result of a need for further information on Stockport’s assessed housing need.

·         The report identified a housing requirement, but did not provide any explanation of how this was achieved.  In response, it was stated that it was not the function of the strategy to identify where those houses needed to be developed but rather the type of housing that was required.

·         There was a significant challenge around the energy efficiency of private housing stock in the borough.

·         Concern was expressed in relation to the number of families that had been housed in town centre tower blocks.

·         Central Stockport Area Committee had previously passed a resolution in relation to the introduction of an Article 4 Direction to regulate the conversion of properties into houses of multiple occupation.  It was noted that discussions had taken place on this issue as part of work on the development of the Local Plan.

RESOLVED – That the report be noted.