Housing
Housing standards in the Black Country are among the lowest in the UK. The Housing Study sets out how to meet the demand for better quality housing now and in the future. In taking a long term view of how the Black Country plans to transform itself, the housing study considers a range of housing solutions, which will make the most of the Black Country natural features and create housing alternatives where people will want to stay and live.
The declining population in the Black Country is due to the out-migration of mature families and affluent households. They are moving to residential environments that fit their aspirations and which are not available locally.
The Black Country has secured Growth Point status to serve the Government's Sustainable Communities agenda.
Our Housing Strategy has been developed to:
- Work up radical options for residential change
- Change the balance of the population by creating locations for aspirational housing, in parallel with
- Addressing issues of low housing demand and social polarisation
- Deliver Regional Spatial Strategy house building/clearance rates and test population/household growth beyond 2021
- Include plans for delivering 71,000 extra households by 2029 (including 50,000 A/B income households)
All supporting technical documents submitted as part of the Draft Phase One Revision to the Regional Spatial Strategy at the end of May 2006 are listed on the Supporting Technical Documents section of this website.
Housing need and housing land evidence for the Black Country sub-region has now been further developed by the four Black Country local authorities in support of the Black Country Joint Core Strategy and the RSS Phase 2 Revision. This updated evidence can be found in the Joint Core Strategy website.
HOUSING supporting technical documents are as follows:
Black Country Housing Market Thinkpiece - CSR Partnership June 2004 - Download [499 KB]
Black Country Study: Developing a Housing Market Restructuring Framework. ECOTEC - September 2005
Black Country Telford Housing Market Renewal Area Phase 1 - ECOTEC September 2005
Exec Summary - Download [1.05 MB]
Chapter 1 - Intro - Download [214 KB]
Chapter 2 - The Case for HMRA Download [6.03 MB]
Annex A BC Household Growth Scenarios - Download [25 KB]
Annex B Policy & Inv Context - Download [166 KB]
Chapter 3 Area Character and Function - Download [1.03 MB]
Chapter 3a - Download [2.63 MB]
Chapter 3b - Download [450 KB]
Chapter 3c - Download [13.07 MB]
Chapter 3d - Download [3.40 MB]
Chapter 3e - Download (8.43MB)
Chapter 3f - Download [986 KB]
Chapter 4 Reference Area - Download [611 KB]
Chapter 5a Drivers of Change - Regional Drivers - Download [322 KB]
Chapter 5b Drivers of Change - Sub regional drivers - Download [3.35 MB]
Chapter 5c Drivers of Change - Localised/neighbourhood drive - Download [9.21 MB]
Chapter 6 Neighbourhood Clusters - Download [5.58 MB]
Chapter 7 Key Policy & Investment Content - Download [47 KB]
Chapter 8 Conclusions and Phase Two Recommendations- Download (26.31KB)
Black Country Urban Housing Capacity Study - Halcrow Group in Association Bruton Knowles -September 2005 Download [6.09 MB]
Black Country Study Population and Household Scenario Forecasts 2001-2031: Mott McDonald December 04 - Download [236 KB]
Black Country and Telford Housing Market Renewal Area - Phase 2 - ECOTEC February April 2006
1. The Housing Market in the Black Country & Telford. Discussion Paper on Strategic Issues & Choices. CSR Partnership with ECOTEC February 2006 - Download [1.74 MB]
2. Black Country and Telford New Build Survey 2005/06 - CSR Partnership March 2006 - Download [3.41 MB]
3. Form, Function and Trajectory of Neighbourhoods in the Black Country and Telford, Draft Report, CSR Partnership, April 2006 Download [11.56 MB]
4. Black Country & Telford Private Rented Sector Analysis Final Technical Report CSR Partnership April 2006 - Download [3.94 MB]
5. Black Country and Telford Area Frameworks, Draft Final Report Llewelyn Davies Yeong March 2006 - Download [3.11 MB]
