Edinburgh's Local Housing Strategy

Closes 22 Apr 2025

Chapter Six - Develop vibrant, connected, safe and inclusive communities

This chapter covers regeneration and placemaking;  greenspaces and nature; safe, connected and inclusive neighbourhoods; and engaged and empowered communities.

These are the proposed strategic objectives:

  • Support communities to be vibrant, connected, safe and inclusive.
  • Take all the local actions necessary to help end poverty.

Read the high-level actions we propose to take

  1. Develop an Estates Strategy.
  2. Develop a new Prevention Strategy against poverty and other harms.
  3. Develop the Community Safety and Antisocial Behaviour Strategy.
  4. Continue to investigate digitalisation of systems and customer access. Include trialling more proactive approaches to make housing communications more accessible for non-English speakers.
  5. Continue to maximise opportunities to improve greenspaces across the city in line with objectives around biodiversity, sustainability and community safety.
  6. Fully embed the Edinburgh Partnership Housing sub-group, as part of the Edinburgh Community Planning Partnership structure, to ensure a citywide community planning focus on the housing and homelessness issues facing the city.
  7. Roll out the new Tenant Participation Strategy and continue to build on tenant engagement.
14. Do you agree with these strategic objectives?
  • Support communities to be vibrant, connected, safe and inclusive.
  • Take all the local actions necessary to help end poverty.
15. Do you think the actions above are the right ones to take?