Consultations in the ‘Housing Services’ category.

Licensing of houses in multiple occupation consultation

Approximately one fifth of all Lincoln’s housing stock is privately rented and there are an estimated 2,000 or so houses occupied as bedsits or otherwise shared by people from different families. This form of tenure tends to be classified as houses in multiple occupation and the law requires that the higher risk properties shall be [...]

Local decisions: A fairer future for social housing consultation

Introduction The Government has recently published plans for changing the way social housing will function and create a more flexible system. As part of the consultation on the Government’s plans, we would like you to tell us what you think about the changes that the Government would like to make. A full copy of the proposals [...]

Private Sector Housing Strategy Consultation

Do you own or rent your home from a private landlord in Lincoln?  If the answer is yes? We want your views on private sector housing in Lincoln.  Council’s are under a duty to keep housing conditions in their area under review with a view to deciding how best to use their powers. To help [...]

Private Sector Housing Strategy Consultation

The council is currently developing a new Private Sector Housing Strategy to set out how the council aims to tackle the issues around private sector housing in the city. This is being developed as a result of the recent Private Sector House Condition Survey, which was carried out in order to fulfil the council’s duty [...]

Lincolnshire Housing Strategy

The City of Lincoln has a local Housing Strategy that details the current housing issues, outlines the available resources and sets out plans for the district’s approach up until 2011. Lincolnshire as a whole suffers from a shortage of good quality, affordable housing which gives local people real choice over their housing options. However, at [...]

Feedback – Landlord Survey Report 2009

During March 2009 a County wide survey was taken to evaluate how the seven District Councils in Lincolnshire are performing in terms of customer service to landlords. The full 2009 Landlords Survey is available for download here.

Feedback: Tenant Survey Report – November 2008

The results of a survey conducted during June/July 2008 using the STATUS tenant satisfaction postal survey.