Local strategies

Examples of strategies and market position statements that showcase local plans

Market Position Statements

If you have produced or know about a MPS or local strategy that does not appear on this page, email us a pdf or the link to info@housinglin.org.uk

Developing local housing partnerships: a Serious Game for older people’s housing

This report presents the findings from a pilot study of a ‘Serious Game’ called Hopetown, an innovative tool for developing local housing partnerships.

Housing and Care: Good Practice guide

This accessible and practical guide, published by Housing LIN in partnership with South West ADASS, supports councils, with their local partners, to plan for and deliver the range of housing and care options needed by older people and working age adults with care/support needs.

Developing an extra care housing resource pack, Greater Manchester Health & Social Care Partnership

The Greater Manchester H&SC Partnership have published a resource pack produced by the Housing LIN that is a useful resource to create and promote innovation, best practice and improve commissioners understanding of workable models of housing with care.

Surrey County Council: Extra Care Housing Market Position Statement, September 2014 - August 2015

This document sets out how the County Council wishes to support Boroughs and Districts to understand the value of Extra Care & Supported housing in helping people to age well in their communities,...

Market Position Statement: Extra Care Housing in Cornwall 2014-2030

This Market Position Statement (MPS) sets out Cornwall Council's intentions to the market for the development of extra care housing. This document is aimed at existing and potential providers of extra...

Further Alterations to the London Plan

The Mayor of London has launched a city-wide planning strategy to deliver the economic, environmental, transport and social improvements that London will need over the next 20 years. The latest version...

Kent County Council Accommodation Strategy for Adult Social Care

The council's strategy, 'Better Homes: Greater Choice', identifies how the provision, demand and aspiration for housing, care and support services will be met for adult social care clients should they...

Oxfordshire County Council Extra Care Housing Market Position Statement

Published in March 2014, this MPS sets out the County Council's current commissioning practices, their understanding of demand for Extra Care Housing, and how that demand may change in the short to medium...

Homes for older Londoners

'Homes for older Londoners' calls for the Mayor to push for more specially build retirement housing to accommodate an expected doubling of the number of Londoners over 85 over the next twenty years....

Essex County Council Adult Social Care - Market Position Statement 2012

This Market Position Statement (MPS) is designed to be a document containing intelligence, information and analysis of benefit to adult social care providers in Essex. It aims to describe current and...

Housing for older people in Newcastle - Market position statement

The MPS was developed jointly by Newcastle's Adult and Culture Services and the Fairer Housing Unit to support the delivery of more housing based models of provision such as extra care housing

Age Friendly Bournemouth: Building Social Capital in Housing and Extra Care Dimensions

This Housing LIN Case Study No 50 takes a detailed look at Bournemouth Council's strategic approach to meeting the housing needs and aspirations of older people. In 2007, Bournemouth Council set out...