A new sub-regional housing strategy for Cheshire has developed by the Cheshire Housing Alliance ( CHA ) which is a partnership of local authorities and the principal stock-holding social landlords in the sub-region.

The CHA provides local authorities and other housing providers with an important channel of communication, both to other service providers and the regional agencies.

The strategy has identified four key priorities:

• To increase the supply of affordable housing.
• To increase the supply of market housing  in order to support continued economic growth and regeneration and to meet local housing need.
•  To meet the housing and accommodation-related support needs of an increasingly ageing population. Making the best use of the housing stock in Cheshire

There are separate East Cheshire and Cheshire West and Chester action plans these action plans will form the foundation for work to tackle housing issues in the new authorities.

View the Cheshire Sub-Regional Housing Strategy 2009-2012 here (PDF 7.23MB).

View the Cheshire West and Chester Sub-Regional Housing Strategy Action Plan here (PDF 195KB).

The shortage of new affordable housing continues to be an issue for Cheshire West and Chester and it will be an early priority for the Council to look at ways of providing resources to increase the supply of good quality housing at an affordable cost.

The latest Regional Housing Strategy for the North West was launched in March 2009. The themes and objectives outlined in the new strategy set the scene for tackling the region's housing issues in the future. View the North West Regional Housing Strategy here (PDF 599KB).