(a)

the ambition of the Plan for Homes 3 was to support the delivery of at least 1000 new homes each year over the next five years; this built on the success of the Plan for Homes programme which had been launched in 2013;

(b)

the programme established a Housing Investment Fund with first delivery allocation of £15.845m in the capital programme; the funding directly supported increased and accelerated delivery of new homes which helped to address identified housing needs and supported the growth agenda;

(c)

the new Plan sets out three strategic housing themes, as follows -

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improving housing conditions and broadening choices;

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supporting the delivery of the Joint Local Plan housing numbers;

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establishing a Housing Investment Fund;

(d)

the Plan also identified nine priority objectives and a range of interventions that would support the delivery of at least 1000 new homes per year through a range of housing, planning and services initiatives whilst also meeting housing needs and tackling homelessness and poor housing conditions.

(e)

a query on the work programme relating to the Cabinet Member responsible for this issue;

(f)

whether the right to buy receipts, totalling £8m, should have been allocated to Plymouth Community Homes, in order to refurbish the Devonport towers (in light of the Grenfell incident), rather than build new homes;

(g)

the current position regarding the Administration’s aspirations to provide temporary/emergency accommodation for homeless people within the City;

(h)

whether priority would be given to sustainability, in build, in use and accessibility in the provision of the 5000 new homes, in order to provide a flexible housing stock, particularly within the social rented sector;

(i)

how engagement with communities was managed in relation to large scale regeneration and self-build sites that had been identified;

(j)

what measures were being undertaken to engage and assess the needs of those people that were currently on the housing waiting list;

(k)

what measures were being put in place, to manage the success that Plymouth had achieved in providing  accommodation for homeless people, given the increased number of homeless people migrating to the City;

(l)

whether purpose built student accommodation could be adapted for family use, should in the future over-capacity with this type of accommodation occur;

(m)

whether there were any measures that the Council could undertake to assist the redevelopment of identified sites within the  City that were privately owned, such as the old snooker hall in St Budeaux and the Paper Converting Machine Company in Southway;

(n)

what encouragement could the Council offer developers to allow students to occupy the newly completed accommodation at Crescent Point.