To all the charities, voluntary workers, Registered Providers, statutory organisations, officers within the council and Cheltenham Borough Homes who have worked so hard to help deliver #teamcheltenham’s Housing, Homelessness and Rough Sleeping Strategy during 2019-20...
Councillor Peter Jeffries Cabinet Member, Deputy Leader of Cheltenham Borough Council and Cabinet Member for Housing & Homelessness
This infographic shows the key achievements over the last 12 months to support the delivery of our Housing, Homelessness & Rough Sleeping Strategy 2018-23. Increasing the provision of Affordable Housing affordable 79 new homes
£100m to support
the delivery of
New schemes underway at:
Monkscroft Villas, Hesters Way 27 affordable homes
Holy Name Halle, Lynworth 8 affordable homes
500 new affordable homes
Golden Valley development project now underway Potential for 3,000 new homes
www.goldenvalleyuk.com
Tackling homelessness and rough sleeping
394
£44k
c.£49k
sourced from county-wide Private Sector Fund. Helping 44 homeless
funding secured
households access
to help survivors of
private rented
domestic abuse
accommodation
households
had their
£1m
homelessness
prevented
secured
or overcome
£1.5m
in income generated
for households needing help with their benefits
£
for the county to tackle
rough sleeping
Enabling the continuation
of emergency hubs and support provision
Making best use of existing accommodation
8
long term empty homes brought back into use
900
homes in
Warm & Well
the private
sector made
safer
Energy Efficiency
Over 1,500
measures saving
boilers replaced, increasing the energy efficiency of our council homes
in reduced
new windows, doors and
19
households
helped to
downsize
from larger
family council accommodation
37
c.ÂŁ10,000 for households
energy bills
non-traditionally built (post war) homes significantly improved to extend their life and reduce tenants’ energy bills
Improving the health and wellbeing of our communities
120
anti-social behaviour cases successfully resolved;
100%
tenant satisfaction in how the cases were handled.
99
people accessed training
into 61 helped work 99% satisfaction
1,800
community project activities have been delivered by CBH and external partners
CBH’s Employment Initiative Service
4,000 volunteer hours have been delivered across the community
New Home-sharing Scheme launched connecting older people with those needing accommodation
76 major
An estimated
ÂŁ10m
Disabled Facility Grants provided to support adaptations to homes.
ÂŁ
of Social Value
generated
throughout
the Borough
221
new Lifeline Alarms installed
91
key safes fitted to improve access to care and emergency services
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