In their latest meeting, the council approved the project set to build hundreds affordable new homes.
“Rotherham’s Housing Strategy” seeks to complete their six priorities before 2025, among them
are listed objectives such as investing in new homes and bringing empty ones back into use.
At this moment in the town centre alone there are already a total of 171 homes being built, with
current planning requirements making sure that at least 75% of these homes are affordable for
locals.
This is also connected to one of the priorities which is listed as “Affordable Housing To Meet
Local Need”.
The three year plan is as a whole a smaller part of a 30 year plan that started back in 2012 and is
set to end by the early 2040s.
This ambitious plan has as an end goal ensuring high quality homes for people in the borough as
well as reducing the gap between the most and least deprived neighbourhoods, and making the
council the best housing provider in the country.
