The Main Regional Bodies
Regional Housing Board
Regional Housing Boards have been established in each region to strengthen the linkages between housing, the planning framework and economic development and to co-ordinate arrangements for determining regional priorities for housing investment.
They have been developed in the context of the national programme, “Sustainable Communities: building for the future”, launched by the ODPM in February 2003. This sets out a programme of action to tackle the imbalance between housing supply and demand, and to improve the condition of housing stock and the quality of life. One area that was identified as crucial to achieving the change was the need for greater integration between housing activity in regions and related strategies/planning processes and investment programmes.
The Regional Housing Board has two specific responsibilities :
- To advise ministers on strategic housing priorities in the region through the production of a Regional Housing Strategy.
- Flowing from the Regional Housing Strategy, to advise ministers on the allocation of resources allocated through the new Single Regional Housing Pot
Regional Housing Board Membership
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