Residents can have their say on plans to deliver more housing opportunities across Lincolnshire.
Councils and housing organisations across the county have jointly developed a draft Lincolnshire Housing Strategy.
This is a plan aimed at offering improved housing circumstances for Lincolnshire’s residents.The Strategy has four priority areas, including providing more affordable housing, providing housing in rural areas to meet local needs and ensuring organisations are responding to the housing challenges arising from an ageing population.
Members of the public can view the draft Strategy by following the link to our have your say page and have until July 3, 2009 to comment. A response pro-forma is available for anyone wishing to make comments.

Following further human cases of swine influenza A (H1N1) being identified, the Lincolnshire Resilience Forum, which includes Boston Borough Council and Lincolnshire County Council, is continuing to work together on local responses, if and when required. The Health Protection Agency is working with the Government to review the current incident and any threat it poses to UK public health. Anyone who has recently travelled to the affected areas and is experiencing influenza like illness should stay at home to limit contact with others, and seek medical advice from a local health professional or by contacting NHS Direct. A Flu Information Line is now up and running - 0800 1 513 513. Advice for businesses is also available.

ACTION to improve Boston Borough Council’s strategic housing service is underway following an inspection by the Audit Commission. The Council’s housing service includes Housing Advice, Choice Based Lettings and Homelessness; Housing Grants, Enforcement and Energy Efficiency and Housing Development, Partnership working and Strategic Housing Market Intelligence. The Audit Commission’s inspection was carried out in January 2009. Inspectors found that Boston Borough Council needed to have a greater focus on customers and service standards and reduce the time taken to process housing grants.They also highlighted areas where the Council needed to carry out more work with private sector landlords to increase housing options and ensure it was addressing the needs of everyone in the community.