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Housing strategy and policy

Housing Strategy 2024 to 2029 - The strategy emphasises the importance of affordable, accessible, and appropriate new housing.

Homelessness and Rough Sleeping Strategy 2022 to 2025 and evidence base. This strategy provides an overview of our work to prevent and relieve homelessness and rough sleeping.

Buckinghamshire Council Housing Allocations Policy October 2024 - this is the policy which sets out how we allocate social housing.

Bucks Tenancy Strategy - this strategy was adopted by the former district councils in Buckinghamshire, as required by the Localism Act 2011. Registered Providers must consider the policy when they are letting accommodation in the Bucks Council area. We will be updating this policy soon.

Affordable housing related planning policies - this includes links to Local Plans, Supplementary Planning Documents, the First Homes Position Statement

Housing Improvement and Adaptations Policy - this policy sets out how the council provides Disabled Facilities Grants and other assistance to support people to remain safe and independent in their homes.

Legal models for delivering affordable housing (PDF, 717 KB) This report was updated in December 2024 and reflects the policy, legislative and operational position at that time. Since then, a number of the arrangements referred to have changed, including the our approach to allocating Section 106 affordable housing commuted sums, the future of Consilio Property Limited and the legislative threshold relating to local authority ownership of housing outside a Housing Revenue Account. The report has not been updated to reflect these subsequent changes but is being published as originally prepared, in line with the our commitment to make the work publicly available.

We keep our approach to affordable housing delivery under regular review as part of business as usual, responding to changes in legislation, government policy, funding opportunities, the housing market and local need. The report should therefore be read as a point-in-time assessment of the potential legal models for delivering affordable housing, rather than as a statement of the our current policy or delivery arrangements.