The Housing Board
The Housing Board is a group of senior local authority and partner agency officers, which meets regularly to work collaboratively on strategic housing issues across eight districts. These are Cambridge, East Cambridgeshire, Fenland, Forest Heath, Huntingdonshire, Peterborough, South Cambridgeshire and St Edmundsbury.
The Board works with its partners to share learning and experience across the local housing market area on four priorities:
- New homes & communities
- Homes for wellbeing
- Existing homes
- Housing need and homelessness
The Housing Board was previously known as Cambridge sub-Regional Housing Board (CRHB) and as CRASH (Cambridge Affordable and Social Housing group).
About the Housing Board
- The Housing Board priorities are outlined on this page.
- You can find terms of reference here.
- Meetings are usually held on the first Friday of each month, from 9.30am to 12.30pm, usually in the Swansley Room at South Cambridgeshire’s offices in Cambourne.
Year planner
You can find a new Housing Board year planner – setting out meeting dates for the Board and other related groups throughout the year – here (draft-v5). It’s work in progress, we can always add new dates, but will hopefully help avoid some meeting clashes.
Recent meeting papers
Please get in touch if you would like to see older meeting papers, we tend to keep just one year’s papers here.
February 2019
- Agenda
- Link to Love’s Farm New Development Survey summary
- Meeting notes to follow.
January 2019
- Meeting cancelled.
December 2018
November 2018
- Agenda
- Note on new rough sleepers & public health survey and RSI allocations, and diagram for our local public health team
- Slides for homelessness update
- Meeting notes.
October 2018
- Agenda
- Adaptations Pathway – report to Public Service Board here and link to BRE report referred to, here
- Think Family slides
- Trailblazer: report for CPSB, review of Year 1 of the project here
- Combined Authority affordable housing programme at October 2018
- Meeting notes.
September 2018
- Agenda September 2018
- Link Housing LIN page on the Dementia Friendly Housing Charter and (added after the meeting) a link to the Older Peoples’ Mental Health delivery board’s Dementia Strategic Plan published 25 January 2018
- Invite to domestic abuse housing officers group, and (post meeting) flyer including further meeting detail
- Meeting notes.
August 2018
Meeting cancelled.
July 2018
June 2018
- Agenda
- Staying close, Staying Connected
- Vulnerable persons housing group background
- Board’s draft terms of reference June 2018
- Update on Combined Authority including 3 planned workshops – Invites
- June 2018 notes.
May 2018
- Agenda
- Reviewing our June 2017 terms of reference
- Draft communication plan
- Draft new CRHB action plan for 2018-19
- May 2018 notes.
April 2018
Meeting cancelled.
March 2018 (annual planning session)
January 2018
- Agenda
- Peterborough Prison: accommodation paper
- Post-meeting: slides summarising key housing themes from the Needs Assessment: Managing Offenders, Preventing Offending 2017, you can find a summary here.
- Meeting notes.
December 2017
- Agenda
- Note of four responses to Autumn 2017 budget
- Meeting notes.
November 2017
- Agenda
- Domestic Abuse Housing Allowance slides (amended slightly after meeting)
- Homelessness review slides
- Sheffield-Hallam slides on draft Older Peoples housing research
- Meeting notes.
October 2017
- Agenda
- James Palmer’s letter about community safety and housing
- Housing related support commissioning review paper
- CRHB action plan update
- Meeting notes.
September 2017
- Agenda
- Cambridge Sustainable Design Guide presentation
- Meeting notes.
August 2017
- Agenda
- Diamond diagrams and notes
- CRHB action plan update
- Meeting notes.
July 2017
- Agenda
- DFG report
- Front Door slides
- Substance misuse delivery board note
- Caravans and houseboats note from CSHG
- Northstowe workshop note
- Pilot diamond affordability note for discussion
- Meeting notes.
June 2017
- Agenda
- Devolution slides
- Proposed structure of CA housing strategy
- ‘Housing is the key’ two page CA strategy note
- Fit for the Future report
- Meeting notes.
May 2017
- Agenda
- APPG Enquiry – SCDC response
- Building for Equality
- Future of supported housing
- Meeting notes.
March 2017
- Agenda
- Closing CRHB’s 2016-17 action plan page 1, page 2 to 6, page 7
- CRHB supported housing funds consultation response
- Review of Hometrack comparables
- Meeting notes.
February 2017 (annual planning session)
- Agenda
- Review of CRHB actions 2016-17
- Notes take form of updated action plan (see March’s meeting papers) and outline agenda plan for 2017-18.