Walsall Borough Housing Strategy 2026 - Key messages: Intervention for market shaping
- Active leadership: Council will intervene directly to unlock stalled sites, deliver regeneration, and ensure affordable, specialist, and supported housing.
- Raising standards: More targeted enforcement, making full use of the new powers under the Renters’ Rights Act 2025 to ensure that all private rented homes inspected are free from category 1 hazards by 2029.
- Supporting vulnerable groups: Deliver 400+ new specialist and supported homes for older people, care leavers, and those with disabilities.
- Targeted regeneration: Three strategic projects planned by 2030, with a minimum of 10% affordable housing and improved public spaces. • Reducing Homelessness: More supported accommodation and flexible allocations will help lower homelessness and waiting lists.
- Community confidence: Proactive intervention and partnership show commitment to quality, inclusion, and sustainable growth.
- How we will deliver:
- Simplify planning and unlock council land for development
- Enforce affordable housing targets and monitor tenure mix
- Convene multi-agency forums and co-produce solutions with communities
- Deliver place-based plans and masterplans in priority areas
Intervention ensures Walsall delivers the housing, regeneration, and social value our communities need—where the market alone cannot.