Council budgets and spending Housing strategy 2020 - 2025

The key objectives under the housing strategy that will be impacted are:

To ensure people can access a mix of housing options within Shropshire’s urban and rural landscape, that best meets their needs in terms of tenure, safety, size, type, design and location of housing.

Specifically, the opportunities to:

• Ensure empty properties are not detrimental to communities, in terms of risk, nuisance, or wasted resources; and 
  
• To work with owners of empty properties, where necessary utilising available enforcement powers
  

To minimise the environmental impact of existing housing stock and future housing development in the interest of climate change. Maximise resource efficiencies and to ensure optimum use of sustainable construction techniques.

Specifically, the opportunity to maximise the use of existing housing stock by reusing empty properties.