Housing Strategy Group

Remit

The Housing Strategies Steering Group is a multi agency group which develops, implements and monitors our main housing strategies (which are statutory requirements).

The main strategies are:

  • The Local Housing Strategy
  • Homelessness Strategy
  • Fuel Poverty Strategy
  • Supporting People Strategy
  • Tenant Participation Strategy
  • Building Strong, Safe and Attractive Communities

The Housing Strategies Steering group was brought together to co-ordinate and avoid duplication as we developed most of the strategies above. Now that the strategies/initiatives are all largely developed the role of the steering group is moving more towards monitoring and review.

We recently held a review of the steering group and have some plans to change the frequency of meetings, who is involved etc, however this won't be progressed until May. Meetings were every 6 weeks, but until we've completed our review, no further meetings are arranged.

   

Links

Further Information

Guiding Documents

Membership

SIC Vaila Simpson Chair, Senior Housing Officer
    Bessie Barron Planning
    Helen Budge Education
    Maggie Dunne Environmental Services
    Christine Ferguson Social Work
    Iris Hawkins Elected Member
    Elaina Leach Environmental Services
    Gordon Mitchell Elected Member
    Avril Nicol Community Development
    Emma Perring Policy
    Faith Tulloch Social Work
    Jenny Wylie Community Safety
    Jacqui Watt Community Services
    Chris Medley Housing
    Anita Jamieson Housing
    George Martin Housing
    Allison Christie Housing
  NHS Dr Sarah Taylor Director of Public Health
    David Kerr  
    Alan Murdoch Community Mental Health Team
  Northern Constabulary Finlay MacBeath  
  Hjatland Housing Association Catharin Cunyngham Brown  
  Shetland Council of Social Service Catherine Hughson  
  Shetland CAB Les Irving  
  Job Centre Plus Maureen McNab  
  Shetland Community Drugs Team Amanda Pearson  
  Hjatland Housing Association Robin Sandison  
  Shetland Tenants Forum Joanne Johnson  
  Shetland Youth Information Service Karen Smith  
  Voluntary Resource Centre Kate Gallant  
  Communities Scotland Ralph Throp  
  Advocacy Shetland Richard Charlton  


Contacts

Housing Department
Shetland Islands Council
Fort Road
Lerwick

Shetland

ZE11 0LW

01595 744360