Winchester City Council's Housing Development Strategy
Winchester City Council owns around 5,500 council homes, providing a variety of good quality accommodation for our tenants. Since 2012, the council has been building and acquiring new housing to add to our existing stock, with a target of delivering 1,000 new homes between 2020 and 2032, in line with the council’s Good Homes For All priority.
We have worked out the amount we can spend on new homes by putting together a business plan for the HRA. First and foremost, this provides for maintaining our existing stock and ensuring that our tenants have the good quality homes they pay for. The business plan demonstrates that even after allowing for this, there is money available to build new homes for the foreseeable future.
In this Strategy we set out what the council intends to deliver, for whom, and how we will ensure that we deliver high quality affordable homes in a cost-effective way. We set out our overall aims for the next seven years and what added value and initiatives our development programme can bring to the local environment and economy. The Strategy will form the framework within which the council will evaluate development opportunities and decide whether to proceed with a project.