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.

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

5 February 2021

• Agenda 5 Feb 2021
• Reviewing our terms of reference – work in progress – tors-reviewing-jan-2021-draft
• Suggestions for agenda items from Survey Monkey last year – note
• Re-working our diagram of groups (work in progress) draft-diagram
• Link to diamond affordability analysis and Supported Housing Schemes listing – pieces of work for 2021
• Expression of Interest for Changing Futures
• Use of covid emergency accommodation stats-for-5-feb (known as the MAIC stats)
• Action notes – to follow

18 December 2020

• Agenda 18 Dec 2020
• Housing Related Support review – an update (sent via e-mail)
• Economic hardship slides
• Draft action notes 18-dec-draft

4 December 2020

• Agenda 4 Dec 2020
• Housing Related Support:
  • Procurement Redesign update
  • HRS – Procurement Q & A
• Link to county committee paper: Adults Committee Papers published here Link to meetings page: Item 4 on Infection Control Fund and Item 7 on Housing Related Support
• Note on Housing Board survey
• Updates:
  • HRS Covid Call notes, 02.12.20
  • MAIC graph 4-dec-2020 and table
• Action notes

20 November 2020

• Agenda 20 Nov 2020
• Slides on young people leaving care presentation
• Housing related support catch up call (18 Nov 2020)
• Action notes actions 

6 November 2020

• Agenda 6 Nov 2020
• Housing related support catch up call notes (4 Nov)
• Action notes 6-nov-actions
• Post meeting note: next-steps-fund- allocations

23 October 2020

• Agenda
• Home-link note and housed by band reason with link to lettings policy consultation here – PLEASE SHARE!
• Paper on Domestic Abuse Bill and link to event to launch Whole Housing toolkit to follow (VC)
• Housing related support catch-up 21.10.20
• Public Health and prevention – draft housing report
• New covid-19 posters – when and how to isolate – Cambridgeshire and Peterborough
• Note on social prescribing and new link forming to the C&P Personalised Care Working Group – to follow
• Action notes

9 October 2020

• Agenda
• HRS Covid Catch Up call 07.10.20
• Circulated after the meeting: number of people in emergency covid accommodation: graph and table
• Action notes

25 September 2020

• Meeting cancelled

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
• Post meeting: slides giving more detail on the Peterborough Exemplar Project (6.9.20)

21 August 2020

Meeting cancelled

14 August 2020

• Agenda
• 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

• Agenda 3 April
• Notes 3 April 2020

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

• Agenda
• DAHA / whole housing progress update
• Housing Related Support update and appendix
• Notes

August 2019

• Agenda
• Health and wellbeing 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 government’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 transformation (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 support 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

• Agenda
• Meeting notes

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

• Agenda
• Link to Love’s Farm New Development Survey summary
• Meeting notes

January 2019

• Meeting cancelled.

December 2018

• Agenda
• Meeting notes.

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.