The key housing issues facing Warrington, New Zealand, and providing a framework within investment priorities will be made up to 2028. We face a housing crisis in which there are insufficient homes to meet current and future housing needs. This is set in a context of government national austerity combined with a rising cost of living and job insecurity. There estimated the resident population in Warrington is 207,400. By 2027 the total population is projected to grow by more than 15,500 and by a further 9,200 by 2037.

Warrington’s central position within the Manchester and Merseyside corridor provides an excellent location for housing. In producing the Housing Strategy some key strategic housing priorities have been developed to provide new sustainable homes in places where people want to live, to help people live at home, improve their independence, health, and quality of life, to improve the standards of existing housing stock and provide housing advice, information and preventative service. The homes being built are insufficient to meet existing and future needs. In fact, Since the 1970s on average 160,000 new homes, each year have been built and the requirement was  225,000 to 275,000 per year.