HOUSING MANAGEMNT IN PORTSMOUTH

Housing Management in Portsmouth

Housing Management in Portsmouth

Introduction

Portsmouth is a city that has everything but in order to properly design a community it is very important for the local authorities to use the funds in a proper manner. Planning is the most essential part in managing the area provided for a city to develop. There are few things that local authorities keep into consideration while allocating housing and other facilities to its people. Local authorities need to first analyse the space that will be available for housing, parks, sport grounds, place for worship, tourism attractions, water supply and thrash dumping area. The local authorities have been able to manage the housing and there areas properly. This is one the reasons why today Portsmouth is well managed and a tourist attraction for many people.

The essay will provide the housing management of local Authorities of Portsmouth, how they keep a record of the number of houses and what are their future plans to meet the growth of housing in the city. The essay will provide a detail of these numbers by using the Regional Spatial Strategies (RSS) and the Local Development Work (LDW) as used by the local authorities of Portsmouth.

Discussion

Portsmouth population shows a mixture of communities and the households are owned by people belonging to different groups of occupation. The report generated by the local authorities shows how the housing plan is implemented, it provides an overview of the number of houses, types of accommodation and location of the houses in the whole city. The report also highlights the negative effects of the increasing number of concentration in the society. It was forecasted that the population for 2011 will be 197,614. The local authorities ensured that in order to accommodate people from different communities and occupations it will need to implement the Housing Plan. The main aim of the Housing Plan was to eradicate the differences in the city.

In order to collect the following housing data several of information was taken from local council tax data, council's property allocation data, houses registered under the Housing Act in the city, data of housing benefits taken by the people and the authorities also requested Universities, employment places to provide accommodation record of their students and workers respectively. The local authorities of Portsmouth used desktop surveys in order to number the houses in the entire city. The number of houses record is generated by the local authorities after every five years and on the basis of these years future housing predictions have also been made in the following table:

Year

2006

2011

2016

2021

2026

Population

191,995

197,614

202,145

207,275

212,312

Housing

84,751

88,801

92,732

96,897

100,740

One-person Household

27,890

29,828

32,177

34,764

37,234



Portsmouth city is highly concentrated with mostly young and teenage people, aging between 20 to 25 years. Portsmouth only has 33.6% of people aging below the age of 25 years which is even more than whole teenage number in England which is 30.7%. According to the increasing population of the city the local authorities have planned to incorporate 420-490 houses per year from 2010 till ...