Housing, Homelessness and Rough Sleeping Strategy - supporting infographic

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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