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You’re invited to give your views to help shape community life in the Cliftonville West Renewal Area.
The Council is proposing a policy to restrict further development of one-bedroom flats, bedsits and houses in multiple occupation (HMOs) in the Cliftonville West Renewal Area.
Suggestions about restricting the number of small flats in the renewal area were first heard at a Community Open Day, held by the Renewal Team last year at the Winter Gardens. Now your views are needed to help decide whether a specific policy should be introduced and what form it should take.
This is your chance to give your views on the policy.
On-line questionnaire
The consultation period runs from 1 September to 25 October 2006.
Th case for a new policy has developed from Councillors’ and residents’ concern about the number of small flats within the area, especially the availability of rented accommodation and the associated high turn over of tenants.
Data from the last Census (2001) supports the residents’ perception of the housing stock and the population mobility within the area. The 2001 Census shows a high level of households living in small flats; 60% of the households in Cliftonville West Renewal Area live in flats, with 30% of the accommodation consisting of 3 or less rooms.
The high level of single person households reflects the accommodation size, with single person households forming over 50% of households in many areas. The census shows a high level of transience in the area with over 30% of the population moving within the previous year of the Census.
The Council believes that the housing stock in the Renewal Area is unbalanced and that this is perpetuating the social problems within the area. The easy availability of small rentable flats appears to be encouraging a highly transient population, which makes it difficult for community cohesion to develop. The transience of the population makes it harder for renewal programmes and service providers to make a sustainable impact on the social problems of the community as the people are continually changing.
Government planning policy encourages high-density residential development. However the Council thinks there is a special case for resisting further new or converted one-bed flats, bedsits and houses of multiple occupation (non self contained accommodation) in Cliftonville West. The Council is therefore consulting residents on their support for the policy and how they believe it would improve the area.
E-mail: hannah.thorpe @thanet.gov.uk
Tel: 01843 577120