The South East England Regional Housing Board (RHB) is a partnership board chaired by the Regional Assembly.

The RHB usually meets four times a year and is tasked with:

• Developing a regional housing strategy
• Monitoring progress against the regional housing strategy
• Agreeing regional priorities to inform advice to Government on funding
• Advising Government on funding priorities for Gypsy, Traveller and Travelling Showpeople pitches.

The Board believes the South East region needs to:

• Build more affordable homes
• Bring decent housing within reach of people on lower incomes
• Improve the quality of new and existing homes.

The RHB is made up of six Assembly members together with representatives from South East England Development Agency, Government Office, the Housing Corporation and English Partnerships.

The RHB receives advice from the Regional Housing Forum and the Housing Advisory Group.

Further information is contained in the RHB fact sheet.

Background

The RHB was established in January 2003 under the chairmanship of Government Office for the South East (GOSE).

In April 2006 the RHB transferred to the Regional Assembly. This followed the Regional Assembly's response to Government proposals to merge the Regional Planning Body and Regional Housing Board, bringing together regional planning and housing responsibilities.

GOSE's Regional Director Rolande Anderson wrote to welcome the new RHB Chairman appointed by the Regional Assembly.

Membership

Meeting Documents

Please select a year to view documents from RHB meetings:

2008
2007
2006

Papers and minutes from previous meetings are available on the GOSE website.

Links

The following links will take you to the web sites of each of the RHB partner organisations:

English Partnerships
GOSE
Housing Corporation
SEEDA

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