A safe, good-quality home is essential for every family. While we’ve made progress, there are still areas where housing in our borough needs to improve.

Some homes do not yet meet modern standards, and the process for allocating social housing can feel complicated. For those most in need, temporary accommodation should be of a suitable standard and offer good value for money. At the same time, we need to deliver more new homes through the regeneration of our brownfield sites.

We are committed to tackling these challenges. We are working closely with local housing providers, landlords, and developers to improve standards, increase housing choices, and make the allocation process clearer and fairer. Our goal is to make sure that residents have access to homes that are safe, affordable, and meet their needs, now and in the future.

This theme's priorities

  • Work with local social housing providers to encourage them to offer local tenants a good, consistent service and decent social homes

  • Encourage the development of new and affordable homes on brownfield land

  • Provide good quality temporary and supported accommodation

  • Intervene to improve the quality of private rented sector homes in the borough, which do not meet acceptable living standards

  • Make it easier to understand how the council allocates social housing

  • Develop a new Local Plan that maximises the delivery of new homes

Action plan for these priorities

Activity Outputs

Work with local social housing providers to encourage them to offer local tenants a good, consistent service and decent social homes

  • Hold strategic meetings with all major local social housing providers to work together to improve quantity and quality of social housing in Rushmoor
  • Shift the focus of scrutiny to internal performance and delivery of housing services through the Housing Oversight Group
  • Investigate targeted downsizing incentives for under-occupied homes
  • Agreed positions with local providers by April 2027
  • Published scrutiny reports with clear recommendations and action tracking
  • Published report with outcome of downsizing incentives investigation

Encourage development of new and affordable homes on brownfield land

  • Support Grainger with options to accelerate building affordable and social homes in the Wellesley development.
  • Identify and progress further opportunities for new and affordable homes with developers, local social housing providers, and government agencies.
  • Affordable homes occupied in Wellesley
  • Pipeline of affordable and social housing units with projected housing numbers

Provide good quality temporary and supported accommodation

  • Adopt a borough-wide approach to temporary accommodation sites and partner with local social housing providers to sustain or secure new, suitable temporary accommodation units
  • Identify and deliver alternatives to Clayton Court
  • Run regular drop-in surgeries at temporary accommodation units to support residents and resolve issues early
  • Review cost and funding model for supported housing to make sure they are sustainable by April 2027
  • Clayton Court decommissioned and new temporary accommodation units secured and operational
  • Drop-in surgeries delivered with recorded attendance
  • Review of supported housing completed and recommendations implemented

Intervene to improve the quality of private rented sector homes in the borough which do not meet acceptable living standards

  • Deliver targeted landlord engagement and advice sessions each year, including regular Landlord Forums
  • Take robust enforcement action on serious housing condition breaches
  • Prepare to adopt and implement new powers from the Renters’ Rights Act as soon as available
  • Landlord Forums delivered
  • Advice and compliance support provided to local landlords
  • Enforcement notices issued for non-compliant properties

Our delivery plan

This page is part of our delivery plan, where we have five priority themes for 2026-28.

Please see our delivery plan for 2026-28 page for more information.

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