Spring 2018
B O R O U G H
NEWS
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Providing family-friendly 3 tenancies 5 7 10 13 We are working to deliver new homes for private rent at market value and to ensure they are available for everyone, including family-friendly tenancies. Local people will have the opportunity to benefit from reliable, trustworthy and long-term tenancies where they can stay in their home and not just have to cope with short-term tenancy agreements. We are encouraging a mix of housing types and sizes and are taking leadership to help deliver more of the right homes locally meeting the needs of local people and speeding up the delivery of urgently needed homes of all tenures. “The biggest decline in home ownership in the last 20 years has been among middle-income 25 to 34 year-olds. In 1995-96, 65% of this group owned a home, but just 27% do in 2015-16, with the biggest drop in south-east England.” Institute for Fiscal Studies
New houses at Woodside Avenue will be available for rent shortly
Council Leader, Cllr Keith House, said: “Our vision is to make sure we get homes for market rent alongside homes for sale and through housing associations in new developments. We know more families are renting and we want to ensure they have homes with longer tenancies that are safe for as long as they want and need them.”
Tenants, such as families with children, often want tenancies longer than would usually be provided in the private rented sector. The attractiveness of these new, secure tenancies, means residents will be able to live in the property for as long as they want, provided they don’t
break the conditions of the tenancy, and establish strong communities.
In this edition... Eastleigh Council Tax frozen again Rebecca Adlington celebrates Places Leisure Eastleigh
We are getting more homes built through our own housing company and have been able to speed up development and deliver muchneeded infrastructure to help the wider community. The initial success of this is helping to create a mix of housing choices, with homes to rent or buy, ensuring we get the right size of homes to meet the needs of local people. Our commitment means homes at Stoneham Park and Woodside Avenue at Eastleigh, Hatch Farm at West End and the old car boot sale site at Bursledon will see homes built for all tenures, with a commitment for the future from the Borough to meet real need on more sites. See page 10 for more information.
Shaping Your Community
Woodside Avenue affordable rent
Free evening parking
Council Tax freeze The Council has agreed a real-term cut in the Borough’s element of Council Tax for 2018-19 - the 15th year in a row! This year the average Borough element for a Band D household is £128.93 or just under £2.50 per week. See page 3
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