I support active attempts to increase the proportion of housing in the district, and in each town within the district, for sheltered and supported housing. There is an under-provision, but also this is vital to a sustainable strategy to deliver affordable housing by allowing existing under-occupied homes to be released and made available whilst providing more appropriate housing and conditions for more elderly residents of the district. There needs to be large increase in this sort of accommodation particularly those that provide separate housing units with a large degree of independence, in every town in the district. This needs to be of a high quality (low quality or high density provision is likely to be counter-productive as it will provide undesirable conditions that will discourage people from moving, particularly from moving out of larger, more under-occupied homes which are the most unaffordable in North Hertfordshire currently).

There needs to be a large increase in this sort of accommodation, particularly in separate housing units that provide full independence, in every town in the district. It needs to be high quality and low density, to encourage transition from larger, more under-occupied properties, so as to release these vital properties to new families in the district.