Gateshead and Newcastle Strategic Housing Market Assessment

Gateshead & Newcastle Strategic Housing Market Assessment 2010
4.2.9 1NG was set up in March 2009 and is jointly funded by both Councils with a focus on
the Urban Core of NewcastleGateshead.
4.2.10 Commercially focused, with a wealth of experience in regeneration and
economic development; 1NG has been created to deliver complex property and
regeneration projects.
4.2.11 The NewcastleGateshead Initiative is committed to working in partnership with local
organisations to develop and promote Newcastle and Gateshead across the world. by raising
NewcastleGateshead’s profile in national and international arenas and making the area a
world‐class destination.
4.2.12 The NewcastleGateshead Investment Plan (2010‐2030) has been prepared by the Gateshead
and Newcastle Partnership, the strategic group providing the leadership for partnership
working across NewcastleGateshead.
4.2.13 It outlines the vision, objectives and priorities for investment in Newcastle and Gateshead to
2030. The Investment Plan is a delivery document, helping the authorities to achieve the
objectives outlined in the Sustainable Community Strategies, in the 1Plan (the economic
masterplan for NewcastleGateshead) and in the emerging shared Local Development
Framework. It sets out the vision, and the key objectives and outlines, through a programme
of place based and thematic interventions, how the councils will deliver their vision for
creating great places over the next 20 years.
4.2.14 The Plan has prioritised a number of themes to ensure that all parts of all communities are
able to benefit from appropriate housing and services to satisfy their requirements. This will
ensure that they can play a full part in their community. The themes are:
‣ Affordable Housing – continuing to provide suitable affordable housing in
communities as part of a mixed communities approach;
‣ Worklessness – ensuring that the Councils address the problems of concentrated
worklessness as part of our investment plan;
‣ Decent Homes – continuing to invest in the fabric of social housing estates;
‣ Independent Living – promoting the ability of vulnerable residents to live lives as
independently as possible;
‣ Fuel Poverty – improving insulation and energy efficiency to reduce the
proportion of incomes spent on energy;
‣ Specialist Housing – ensuring that the needs of particular vulnerable groups,
including BME communities, are met.
4.3 Housing Allocation
4.3.1 The Gateshead Unitary Development Plan (2007) and saved policies (July 2010) sets out
Gateshead Council's policies and proposals for housing, land use, transport and the
environment. It provides a context for a range of initiatives in the private and public sectors
and forms the basis for the consideration of applications for planning permission.
4.3.2 The UDP (H1 Rate of Housing Provision) sets out provision for an annual average net increase
in the dwelling stock of 505 up to 2016.
4.3.3 Priority has been given to identifying sites for new housing development on previously
developed land within the existing built up area, subject to maintaining environmental
quality and open space.
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