The Housing Board

The Housing Board is a group of senior local authority and partner agency officers meeting monthly 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 six priorities:

• New homes & communities
• Homes for wellbeing
• Existing homes
• Housing need and homelessness
• Housing & the cost of living
• Housing & the environment

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.
• Here is a link to the Board’s terms of reference, update in September 2022

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.

Resources created through housing sub-regional projects during the covid-19 pandemic include the covid newsreel, covid-19 and housing page and the no recourse to public funds page.

May 2025

• Agenda agenda-9-May-25
• Election of new Mayor for CPCA: link to Mayor’s manifesto (includes section on housing) Get Moving.pdf
• Changes to ICS and ICB slides ICS ICB Update 09-05-25
• Audit of needs assessments Audit of housing assessments slides
• Link to Cambridgeshire’s poverty strategy commission report and Peterborough’s Poverty Truth Network  (now in Year 2 of its work, link takes you to the website for the network)
• Discussion of meeting plan for the year link to plan
• Meeting notes housing-board-May2025-actions-AI

April 2025

Meting cancelled

March 2025: planning for 2025/26

• • Agenda 8 March 2025
  • Review of agendas 2024 to 2025 and progress on actions at year-end here (remaining actions to be closed off or put on the new action plan for 2025-26)
  • Link to MIRO board here
  • Draft workplan for 2025-26 20256 year plannner v1
  • AOB: County’s CQC inspection: outline documents (1) and (2)
  • Meeting notes March-2025-actions

February 2025

• Agenda 7 Feb 2025
• Brief Changing Futures update: Link to Changing Futures page for background
• Update on housing board finances 2025/26: note circulated to Board members
• Preps for our annual review meeting: Review of our terms of ref (last update is dated Sept 2022)
  • Housing as a local system: thinking about the effects of Devolution – see English Devolution White Paper – GOV.UK, new strategic partnership: Homes England & CPCA, the Marmot editorial on putting well-being at the centre Marmot editorial BMJ ; Other issues (please suggest)
  • Preparing our thoughts for the board’s purpose & ways of working (MIRO board); linked groups & how we join up; quick review of actions in 2024/25 (to follow) and stop/start/continue exercise
• AOB
• 7 Feb 2025 actions v2

January 2025

• Agenda-10-Jan-25
• Safe Accommodation Strategies & IDVA update – Danae Evans
• Devolution white paper English Devolution White Paper – GOV.UK and Marmot editorial BMJ in preparation for our year planing session in Feb / March
• 10 Jan 2025 actions

December 2024

• Agenda draft-housing-board-agenda-Dec-24-v3
• Annual Homelessness update: Slides: Housing Board Homelessness trends 2023 to 24 and  report Homelessness trends 2023-24. Sub Regional Homeless Action Plan themes and Sub Regional draft terms of ref 2024
• Update on extension to homelessness support Document.ashx and strategic need for accommodation for working age adult https://cambridgeshire.cmis.uk.com – working age adults (Lisa)
• Action notes

Nov 2024

• Agenda-8-Nov-24
• Tackling serious organised crime: Neil Sloan Cambs Police
• Housing Delivery stats 2023/24: Rob Kemp (slides to be shared once stats are published)
• Adaptations policy review: Helen Reed – presentation
• Poverty Commission and housing: Yannick Auckland (technical difficulties on the day) – Poverty Commission for Cambridgeshire: context Cambridgeshire Poverty Context
• Public health, JSNA and HWBB catch-up: Iain Green, Public Health Peterborough
• Action notes

Oct 2024

• Meeting cancelled

Sept 2024

• Agenda-6-September-2024
• Grenfell Inquiry summary Grenfell-summary-for-Housing-Board
• Action notes

August 2024

• Meeting cancelled

July 2024

• Agenda-12-July-2024
• Home-Link annual update Home-Link Annual Report 2023-24 V2 DRAFT
• General Election discussion post-GE-housing-news and CIH note on labour housing pledges here CIH-labour-manifesto-housing-pledges
• Draft SLA for housing board service here SLA 05-08-24
• Action notes housing-board-12-July-2024-actions

June 2024

• Agenda-7-June-2024
• Cuckooing policy and process – Shelley Ward, Cambs Police
• Domestic abuse policies, support, and links: and supported, sheltered, and direct access accommodation – Danae Evans
• Health and Wellbeing action plan update: being presented to health and wellbeing board in July 2024 (including Duty to Refer report and brief update on cold, damp mouldy homes)
• Housing Board updated annual plan (still work in progress, attached) housing-board-meeting-planner-08July24 and agreement on budget and planned new SLA
• Update on plans for the Financial Capability Forum
• Action notes housing-board-7-June-2024-actions

May 2024

• housing-board-agenda-10-May-2024
• End Furniture Poverty presentation slides – and the website address for Furniture Flex is Home – Furniture Flex
• Draft Strategic Intentions for Accommodation and slides
• Notes of actions

April 2024

Meeting cancelled

March 2024

• Agenda 1 March
• Audit of housing needs assessments
• Action notes

February 2024

Meeting cancelled

January 2024

• Agenda 12 January
• Safer accommodation strategy: report, proposed changes 2024 to 2027, slide presentation
• 12 January 2024 actions

December 2023

• Meeting cancelled

November 2023

• Agenda-3-November-2023
• Report Homelessness trends 2022-23 Slides Homelessness trends 2022-23
• 3-November-2023-actions

October 2023

• Agenda-6-October-2023
• Papers
• 6-October-2023-actions

September 2023

• Agenda-1-September-2023
• Papers
• Financial models TRAM and KAM
• 1-September-2023-actions

August 2023

• Agenda-4-August-2023
• Update from CPCA on “Devo2” work (Paul Raines)
• Verbal update on ICS workers accommodation survey (Jess Pickman)
• Actions notes housing-board-4-August-2023-actions-SB

July 2023

• Agenda-7-July-2023
• 7-July-2023-actions

June 2023

• Agenda-2-June-2023
• Home-Link Annual Report 2022-23
• 2-June-2023-actions

May 2023

• Agenda-5-May-2023
• Changing Futures update: two-page-newsletter-140423
• HMO action on housing & health action plan: DRAFT LANDLORD HMO GUIDANCE 130423 (Jo Evans, FDC)
• 5-May-2023-actions

April 2023

• Agenda-14-April-2023
• Supported Housing Survey note and 2 surveys
  • DLUHC Supported Housing Survey
  • Supported Housing Review – Commissioners Survey
  • Supported Housing Review – Housing Benefit Team Survey
• Health / Housing action plan link Joint Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Health & Wellbeing Board/ICP | CPICS Website
• Diamond affordability analysis slides here whole area summary 2023 for HB
• Keywoker accommodation slides ICS Accommodation Project Update – April 2023
• Action notes 14-April-2023-actions

March 2023

• Agenda-3-March-2023
• ICS keyworker housing survey proposals:
  • CP ICS Staff Housing Needs Survey_Draft v0.2_for Housing Board 03.03.23
  • CP Staff Housing Needs Survey FAQS
  • CP Staff Housing Needs Survey Proposal and Options Paper_Final Draft v0.1
• For planning the coming year: draft-meeting-planner-2023-24 and housing-board-tors-march-23-updating
• Tackling prevention and supporting community engagement in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough 2023 v7 FINAL
• Action notes housing-board-3-March-2023-actions-SB

February 2023

• Agenda-3-Febuary
• Familial abuse slides (to follow)
• ICS keyworker accommodation slides (to follow)
• Draft health and wellbeing strategy, Housing, skills, employment chapter (pdf) and discussion of summit (afternoon of 20 Feb at Burgess Hall Huntingdonshire)
• LAHF note 
• Draft-meeting-planner-2023-24 to build on t next meeting – suggestions welcome.
• Budget note circulated separately
• Actions housing-board-3-Feb-2023-actions

January 2023

• Meeting cancelled

December 2022

• Agenda-2-December-2022
• Homelessness review: Housing Board paper on Homelessness trends 2021-22 and housing-board-housing-advice-and-homelessness-update-2022
• Health and well-being strategy – draft circulated
• Action notes actions

November 2022

• Agenda housing-board-agenda-4-November-2022-v2
• Update on CAS3 accommodation (this is temporary accommodation for people on release from prison with no alternative housing options) – slides will be circulated
• ICS accommodation project (relates to key worker housing) slides
• Floating Support update: Lisa S P3 FS Stats April 21 to June 22
• Update on rent arrears / financial hardship reporting – verbal
• Update on Health and Wellbeing Strategy work HWBS note after CSHG
• Action notes housing-board-4-Nov-2022-actions

October 2022

• Agenda housing-board-agenda-7-October-2022-
• Papers
  • 247 Maquarie Revenue Funded Model for Affordable Housing_(v3)
  • HWB-ICS Work and Health Strategy presentation – overview and key questions
  • Q2 Homeless HRS Summary Q3 Homeless HRS Summary Q4 Homeless HRS Summary
• Action notes Oct-2022-actions

September 2022

• Agenda-2-September-2022
• Papers
  • Terms of Ref review Aug-2022
• Action notes 2-September-2022-actions

August 2022

• Agenda-5 August-2022
• Domestic Abuse Safe Accommodation work: Sub Regional Board Presentation 05082022
• Outcome of housing paper to CPCA Board
  • Report CPCA The Future of CPCA Housing Purpose and Function
  • Summary of councillor consultation Appendix 1 Summary Member Workshop 6 April 2022
  • Summary of partner consultation Appendix 2 Feedback from Housing Partner Workshop 29 Mar 2022
  • Modern Day Slavery slides: Operation Pheasant August 2022
• Updates
  • Changes to County teams including Lisa Sparks; HRS re-commissioning, partner update and needs profiles
  • Update on “new diamonds” affordability analysis – slides to peruse https://cambridgeshireinsight.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Affordability-slides-for-Housing-Board.pptx (suggest separate meeting or item in September to talk through)
• AOB
  • Draft ADASS report here adass – housing best practice 020822.pdf any comments to sue.beecroft@cambridge.gov.uk please
• Asylum Dispersal
  • Full-Asylum-Dispersal-Regional Plan-data pack v1.0
• Action notes 5-August-actions

July 2022

Meeting cancelled

June 2022

• Agenda-10-June-2022
• Asylum dispersal letter Minister-Announcement-letter-asylum-dispersal
• Action notes 10-June-actions

May 2022

• Agenda housing-board-agenda-6-May-2022
• Private Sector Housing Group – terms of reference (draft) and work plan 2022-23
• Action notes 6-May-actions

April 2022

Meeting cancelled

March 2022

• Agenda housing-board-agenda-4-March-2022
• National Drug Strategy New national Drugs Strategy 2021
• Draft local strategy DRAFT Drug Alcohol strategy-Delivery plan 23 Dec 21
• Notes 4 March-2022-actions

February 2022

• Agenda 4 February
• Suicide Prevention Strategy: Suicide prevention strategy summary
• TB Health Needs Assessment Overview and Recommendations: Tuberculosis needs asst overview & recoms
• Housing, Mental Health and Substance Misuse launch : link to Toolkit page here
• Preparing for our March 2022 year planing session
  • Link to existing Terms of Reference here
  • Supplementary ToRs during covid: here
• Notes February-2022-actions

January 2022

• Agenda
• Item 1: Learning disability needs assessment  presentation
• Item 2: Hoarding
  • Hoarding outline note
  • Hoarding contacts and info 
  • Fire Service data
• Item 3: Update on Changing Futures
  • CPSB one pager 031221
  • The Trusted Person model note
• Draft actions