Housing Standards

Everyone deserves to live in a quality home. But too often in Liverpool City Region housing choice is limited, with an overabundance of aging, low-quality and energy-inefficient properties. This is bad for our health, for fuel poverty, and for quality of life. The Spatial Development Strategy (SDS) could potentially help address this by introducing housing standards to ensure that people and communities have the high-quality, sustainable homes they need.

A suggested policy approach for the SDS to address this issue is set out below. For more information on the considerations behind this approach, which includes your feedback from the previous engagement, please read the accompanying Our Considerations paper (also available to download below).

We are considering which recognised housing standards could be included as a housing standard requirement in the SDS. These include:

Please see Our Considerations paper for more details on each of the above.

Please provide your views on this approach by answering the questions below. Your comments will help us in drafting a policy on Housing Standards.