Housing

• Home page
• Bexley Allocations Service
• Housing Options Service
• Housing / Council Tax Benefit
• Housing Strategy
• Enabling & Development
• Emergency Duty Service
• Bexley Emergency Link Line - BELL
• Supporting People
• Quick Find Telephone Directory

Contact Details

• Bexley Civic Offices,
  Broadway, Bexleyheath,
  Kent DA6 7LB
• stephen.heatley @bexley.gov.uk
• 020 8294 6503

Useful Links

• South East London Housing Partnership
• Office of the Deputy Prime Minister
• Sustainable Communities: Homes for All
• Mayor of London Housing Publications
• Thames Gateway London Partnership
• Draft London Housing Strategy
• Bexley's Unitary Development Plan
• Draft Economic Development Strategy 2004-09
• Bexley Homelessness Review and Strategy
• Supporting People Strategy

Housing Services in Bexley

Housing Strategy

Although the Council transferred its housing stock in February 1998, it still retains strategic housing responsibilities to assess local needs and develop plans to meet them, as well as providing services to those requiring advice on their housing options. The Council therefore produces a housing strategy, in consultation with tenants, residents and other partners that sets out a plan for improving housing services and conditions.

Housing Strategy 2002-2006

The Housing Strategy:

• describes housing in Bexley within the national, regional and local context;
• outlines current and future housing markets and needs;
• describes housing objectives and priorities;
• reviews the process by which options are assessed and the resources available to meet needs in the most effective way; and,
• provides a realistic and costed action plan, agreed with our partners, together with performance measures

The Government Officer for London has assessed the Strategy as 'Fit for Purpose'.

The 2004 Housing Annual Report outlines the changing policy context and describes our performance against the objectives set out in the Housing Strategy as well as a detailed action plan for 2004/05.

Download Housing Strategy 2002-2006 (951Kb, pdf file)
Download Housing Strategy & Investment Programme (1195Kb, pdf file)

South East London Housing Partnership

Bexley also plays a key role in the South East London Housing Partnership with Bromley, Greenwich, Lewisham and Southwark and includes the Housing Corporation, the Association of London Government (ALG) and our housing association partners.

The scope and nature of SELHP's work can be seen in the SE London Housing Strategy and its summary, and through the sub groups that are responsible for delivering the strategy and its action plan.

Key strategic documents from other agencies and individual boroughs - such as the draft London Housing Strategy - may be accessed via the Strategy page.

Thames Gateway

Bexley is also a Thames Gateway Borough. The Government's Sustainable Communities Plan identified the Thames Gateway as a major growth area for accommodating more than 120,000 homes and more than 18,000 jobs by 2031. Although The Thames Gateway initiative provides opportunity for major investment, in order to attract this investment, Bexley will be expected to play its part in achieving housing and employment growth.