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 seven districts. These are Cambridge, East Cambridgeshire, Fenland, Huntingdonshire, Peterborough, South Cambridgeshire and West Suffolk.
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 2020 – here draft-year-planner-2020. It’s work in progress, we wan tto add more 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.
Due to coronavirus, from April 2020 for a few months we are adding additional dates so the Board meets on-line fortnightly, with email contact between meetings, to help us work together at a strategic level on housing needs and issues which are shared across the area.
We have put together some supplementary terms of reference during the covid-19 outbreak, to show how the housing board is involved and working across partnerships to tackle risks and issues identified. You can also find a guide to the ‘network’ of meetings and agencies relating to covid-19 here covid-and-housing-network
Other resources generated through housing sub-regional projects, linked to covid-19, include
- the covid newsreel
- covid-19 and housing page
- no recourse to public funds page
11 September 2020
- Agenda 11 Sept 2020
- Updated ARC4 report, now including East Cambridgeshire was circulated via email a and b
- Summary of next steps bids summary of bids
- Emergency accommodation and people with No Recourse, or Ineligible EEA nationals – a note
- Emergency accommodation stats at 8th Sept graph and table
- Housing Related Support Covid Catch Up Call 02.09.20
- Action notes to follow
- Post meeting: slides giving more detail on the Peterborough Exemplar Project (6.9.20)
August 2020
Meeting cancelled
14 August 2020
- Agenda 14 Aug
- CPCA £100K homes draft allocation policy and guidance circulated via e-mail. Notes of points raised at meeting here questions from Housing Board
- Feedback on Housing Related Support
- Action notes 14 Aug
31 July 2020
- Agenda 31 July
- ARC4 recommendations: spreadsheet of feedback
- Draft Covid Recovery report for discussion on 31 July
- Emergency accommodation stats: table and graphs
- Housing Related Support notes from 22.07.20
- Action notes 31 July
17 July 2020
- Agenda
- Emergency accommodation data for 17 July
- MEAM questions in excel to discuss
- District “next steps” plans: report for Housing Board
- Housing related support notes from 08.07.20
- Actions from 17 July
26 June 2020
- Agenda
- Food for thought: a note on using the MEAM approach to transition / recovery planning
- Homelessness emergency accommodation stats
- Housing Related Support note
- Next steps initial plan collated (needs amendment, bring back to future meeting)
- Actions from 26 June
12 June 2020
- Agenda
- Rough sleepers and health provision in Wisbech
- CPCA letter to developers, here
- Approach to transition planning – for a brief discussion on 12th and, if supported, in-depth agenda item at a future meeting. Link to the MEAM document
- Housing related support action points from 3-June and 9-June
- Rough sleeper accommodation stats for 12 June Housing Board
- Note on sub-regional housing service for 2020/21 has been e-mailed to funding partners
- Action notes from 12 June
29 May 2020
- Agenda 29 May
- Temporary accommodation update stats to 20 May 2020
- Notes of Housing Related Support forum held 20 May 2020
- Summary of Needs Assessment for Rough Sleeper accommodation – some learning points
- Action notes 29 May
15 May 2020
- Agenda
- Temporary accommodation update accom-for-hb-15-may
- Housing related support notes Housing related support points
- Actions from 15 May
1 May 2020
- Agenda
- Draft report on numbers in temporary accommodation for Board’s review, here homeless-accommodation-draft-report
- Notes – these have been changed from full meeting notes to actions points
17 April 2020
- Agenda-17 April
- Slides have been e-mailed
- Draft-notes-17april-with-action-table
3 April 2020
In light of Coronavirus, the meeting will be held online. Participants will get joining details by email. Please get in touch if you wan to join the meeting but do not have the meeting invite, via sue.beecroft@cambridge.gov.uk
March 2020
- Agenda
- Combined Authority update on the 100K-homes-business-case
- Notes
February 2020
- Agenda
- Item 4: Commissioning Principles sent via e-mail
- Early thoughts for 2020 agenda plan – draft note here outline-meeting-planner
- Notes
January 2020
- Agenda
- Note on plans for 2020/21 budget circulated via email
- Draft notes notes-jan-2020
December 2019
- Agenda
- Report on use of postcodes
- Notes
November 2019
- Agenda
- Trailblazer stats: to September 2019 trailblazer-stats
- It Takes a City: link to the new StreetSupport app https://streetsupport.net/cambridge/ with a note of what’s on street support so far
- Severe weather fund: bidding opportunity? CWF final 8-10-19
- JSNA on tuberculosis: interim update (will be presented at December’s meeting) slides
- Notes
October 2019
Meeting cancelled
September 2019
August 2019
- Agenda
- Health and wellbieng strategy: slides from Dr Liz Robin – to be circulated
- Note on local housing allowances – draft report to be summarised and circulated – summary slides here
- Note on goverment’s review of first year of Homelessness Reduction Act – note
- Allocations behaviourist project – slides
- Notes
July 2019
- Agenda
- Allocations policy due to be reviewed in 2019: discussion with various contributors
- Homeless Veterans – slides
- County council report on homelessness and draft paper for CPSB on homelessness and system tranformation (to follow)
- Homelessness reduction act – government’s review ‘one year on’
- Discussion of proposed approach to housing assessment in future (verbal)
- Draft letter about homelessness funding (e-mailed)
- Meeting notes
June 2019
- Agenda
- Briefing note on housing-related suport review and slides used at housing provider forum
- Trailblazer end of Year 2: briefing note and cost saving report (e-mailed)
- Contributing to campbell-tickell-research on working with combined authorities
- June-2019-notes
May 2019
April 2019
- Agenda
- Adult safeguarding: multi agency risk management guidance and slides
- West Suffolk housing delivery report slides
- Homelessness systems approach slides
- CPCA wellbeing workshop outline
- Meeting notes
March 2019
- Agenda
- Review of the housing board year 2018/19
- Private rent & LHA draft note
- Draft trailblazer 2019/20 action plan
February 2019
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.