Leicestershire Rural Housing Enabler Contract - Leicestershire Rural Housing Group

Melton Borough Council wishes to invite tenders on behalf of the Leicestershire Rural Housing Group (LRHG) for the supply of Rural Housing Enabling services across the county of Leicestershire.

The main service priorities of this contract are:

• Information on a minimum six potential new deliverable sites for housing in the county (a minimum of one in each local authority area), where there is written evidence of a willing landowner; written evidence of the site being acceptable in principal by the relevant local planning authority; is in a priority location for the relevant local authority, with an identified housing need; and there are no obvious deliverability/design constraints • Initiation of projects that will increase the numbers of affordable housing dwellings in the county • An increased profile of affordable rural housing need in the parishes, boroughs and districts within the county • Up to date and relevant information on rural affordable housing need in the county by way of a minimum of six rural housing need surveys (a minimum of one in each local authority area), in the event the minimum number of new deliverable sites are not found