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The condition of the house we live in has a significant impact on our health and wellbeing. As a council we need to ensure correct actions are taken where landlords are reluctant to maintain properties.
Our Private Sector Housing Policy is designed to maintain and improve housing conditions within East Cambridgeshire. It sets out our approach to enforcement and is designed to be fair to responsible landlords, and also to deal effectively with non-compliant or rogue landlords.
The Housing Adaptations and Repairs Policy highlights the importance that housing can play in promoting physical and mental health and wellbeing.
The policy outlines the interventions that may be funded through the Disabled Facilities Grant (DFG) capital allocation paid to councils through the Department of Health’s Better Care Fund.
The key objectives of the policy are to:
The policy has been adopted by the 5 district councils in Cambridgeshire and aims to provide a consistent approach across the county.
East Cambridgeshire District Council commissioned the Building Research Establishment (BRE) to undertake a series of modelling exercises on housing stock in the district. The detailed information provided in these reports is used to facilitate the delivery of our housing strategies and enable a targeted intervention approach to improve housing:
The council also commissioned a Health Impact Assessment (HIA). This draws on evidence of the health impacts of hazards identified using the Housing Health and Safety Rating System (HHSRS).
The report shows the link between poor health and poor housing along with the estimated costs of poor housing to the NHS and society.
As a result of the update to the Private Sector Housing Model Report in 2021, our Private Sector Housing Renewal Policy has been updated: