The Housing Strategy 2025 to 2039 puts health and well-being at its centre and outlines the key priorities needed to ensure that there are fewer households in fuel poverty and more affordable and suitable homes available.
This strategy is aligned to the aim of Cumberland Council's Plan 2023 to 2027:
"Our aim is to improve the health and wellbeing of our residents. It is at the heart of everything that we do. We want them to be happy, healthy and safe throughout their lives. We will promote independence but also make sure we provide help early when needed. When people are vulnerable, our services will support them to live well."
The Cumberland Plan sets out the council’s values that are embedded in everything that we do. These values cut across all aspects of Adult Social Care and Housing work, both collectively as services and through individual staff behaviours. We are:
- compassionate
- innovative
- empowering
- ambitious
- collaborative
The Cumberland Plan aim is improving health and wellbeing.
The key areas of work are:
- addressing inequalities
- local economies that work for local people
- environmental resilience and climate emergency
- delivering excellent public services
The Cumberland approach to service delivery include:
- listening, involving and engaging
- learning and improving
- sustainabilitity
- driving change
- local first
- leadership
- collaborative working
- prevention and early intervention
- accessible and trusted services
All these priorities interlink and reinforce each other to improve the opportunities, wellbeing, and quality of life of our communities from tackling inequality to making best use of the council’s resources.
By aligning the Housing Strategy with the Cumberland Plan we aim to support residents in our communities by making housing accessible and providing housing that they can aspire to live in.
Housing is part of the Adult Social Care and Housing Directorate, our Directorate Vision, aligned to the Cumberland Plan is:
“People live fulfilled, healthy, independent lives in the place that they call home”
The vision for Adult Social Care and Housing is that we provide excellent care and support and create homes where people feel they truly belong. We support people to live fulfilled, healthy, and independent lives by focusing on what matters most to them and their wellbeing. By listening to people, offering real choice, and embracing new ideas, we will create housing and support that meets people’s needs and ensures everyone has a place that they are happy to call home.
The vision is underpinned by five priorities:
- excellence in practice
- valuing our skilled workforce
- empowered voices, empowered choices
- right support, right time, right place
- innovating for our communities
We know the challenges and issues that are faced in Cumberland, and we can only address these through collaboration with our partners and our communities. Our aim is to create strong relationships with others to enable us to deliver on our priorities.