Hull City Council’s 6,000-home delivery plan includes 13% social rent

To achieve its objectives, the Hull Council plans to engage with developers, landowners and landlords in a call for sites ahead of a new local plan being adopted in 2027.

This will identify key housing growth areas, it said. It also plans to encourage developers and funders to engage with the council where they believe they can deliver viable housing-led schemes on a council-owned asset.

The local authority also plans to facilitate the development of a strategic housing partnership to act as a “sounding board” for the mayoral combined authority when it is introduced later this year.

It aims to agree an approach to acquiring Section 106 new build homes through the planning system “where possible”.

This will include agreeing a quality standard that is “future-proofed to meet the quality requirements demand of social housing stock”. 

Hull owns around 23,000 council homes. To deliver 800 more, it plans to identify developable small sites across the city, in consultation with local communities.

It also plans to acquire existing properties, such as those in need of repair and bringing empty homes back into use.

Paul Drake-Davis, cabinet portfolio holder for regeneration and housing at Hull Council, said: “The housing and homeless crisis in the UK shows no sign of waning.

“Feedback from residents during the consultation for Hull’s community plan clearly showed that the top priority is having somewhere safe, comfortable and affordable to live.

“The strategy sets out how we will facilitate this through a comprehensive approach that will address economic development, environmental impacts and deliver sustainable homes and communities.”

In July 2024, Hull was one of 20 large stock-owning local authorities to call on the government to “secure the future of council housing”.