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Item 12 - More than a Roof - WDC Housing Solutions Strategy

West Dunbartonshire Council · 12 August 2026
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WEST DUNBARTONSHIRE COUNCIL 
Report by the Chief Officer, Housing 
Housing and Communities Committee: 12 August 2026
___________________________________________________________________ 
Subject:   More than a Roof - West Dunbartonshire’s Housing Solutions
Strategy update and new approaches to homelessness progress
report. 
1. Purpose 
1.1 The purpose of this report is to provide members with an update on the delivery of
“More than a Roof”, West Dunbartonshire Council’s Housing Solutions Strategy for
2025-28, including progress made during Year 1, the proposed Year 2 delivery
plan, the continued pressures arising from the local and national housing
emergency, the proposed 2026/27 homeless lettings target, and the allocation and
use of Scottish Government Housing Solutions funding. 
2. Recommendations 
2.1  It is recommended that the Housing and Communities Committee: 
(i) Note and agree the progress made and challenges experienced
during Year 1 of “More than a Roof” and agree the main
objectives proposed for Year 2 as set out in sections 4.28–4.48 of
this report 
(ii) Note that the Council’s housing allocation letting target for
homeless households is 59% for 2026/27 as set out in section
4.36 of this report 
(iii) Note that Scottish Government Housing Solutions funding of
£236,015 has been awarded for 2026/27 for the delivery of West
Dunbartonshire’s Housing Solutions Strategy; and  
(iv) Note continued uncertainty around future Housing Solutions
funding beyond 2026/27 and the need to review any ongoing
commitments in line with confirmed future funding. 
3. Background 
3.1 The Council’s approach to tackling homelessness is outlined in the Housing
Solutions Strategy “More than a Roof” and reinforced within the new Local
Housing Strategy approved by the Housing and Communities Committee in
November 2021. 
3.2     “More than a Roof” is West Dunbartonshire Council’s 6th Homeless Strategy   
with a strong focus on finding housing solutions for those households in need. 
This strategy covers the period from 2025 to 2028, which means it is aligned 
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with the current Local Housing Strategy which also runs until 2028. 
3.3     This approach aims to build on the achievements of “Home at the Heart”, WDC’s   
Rapid Rehousing Transition Plan. It has been developed within the backdrop of a 
Housing Emergency both locally and nationally. 
3.4     The strategy was developed in partnership with key stakeholders, including   
West Dunbartonshire Health and Social Care Partnership (HSCP) and the
wider Housing Solutions Partnership, which includes local            
Registered Social Landlords. In addition, in-depth consultation with households 
experiencing homelessness and staff working in the service were also carried           
out.  It was approved by the Housing and Communities Committee 
on 26 February 2025. 
3.5     Regular reports will continue to be provided to the Housing and Communities            
Committee to provide updates in terms of progress being made in the delivery              
of the Housing Solutions Strategy and approving the use of Scottish 
Government funding to deliver the key objectives. 
4. Main Issues 
4.1 In Year 1 good progress was made across prevention activity, Housing First,
supported accommodation review work, partnership protocols and housing
options advice. However, demand remains acute, with continued pressure on
temporary accommodation, limited supply of suitable one-bedroom
accommodation, increasing youth homelessness presentations and a projected
shortfall in lets required to meet need. The Year 2 plan therefore focuses on
strengthening prevention, improving move-on and support pathways,
maintaining a 59% lettings target for homeless households, managing
temporary accommodation pressures and making targeted use of available
Scottish Government funding. Future funding uncertainty remains a material
risk to longer-term delivery. The aims of “More than a Roof” in terms of tackling
homelessness are influenced by the Scottish Social Housing Charter and
consistent with the Scottish Government’s “Ending Homelessness Together”
approach and are structured around the following four strategic objectives: 
• Homelessness is prevented by providing good quality advice and information
to enable informed decisions on personal housing solutions;
• Where homelessness does occur, households are rehoused quickly; 
• Review and ensure there are a wide range of support services available to
prevent and end homelessness; and 
• Working with partners to provide interim options for temporary
accommodation and providing best quality temporary accommodation where
required. 
“More than a Roof” Year 1 Progress 
4.2    In order to achieve these objectives over the three-year period the following   
actions have been taken in Year 1:

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Objective 1: Homelessness is prevented by providing good quality advice and
information to enable informed decisions on personal housing solutions.   
4.3      A variety of measure have continued to be used to prevent homelessness in       
West Dunbartonshire. There has been a delay in the homeless service redesign
to a housing solutions focus however this has now been concluded and is
beginning to progress, including work around reviewing the Council’s delivery
of housing options interviews and personal housing solutions plans 
4.4   The Prevention Officer has continued to engage with households at risk of
homelessness. This had included managing the Prevention Fund which in Year
1 made payments directly to two households totalling £1000. Since the fund
began a total of £30,200 has been made in payments to help ensure that 75
existing tenancies have been sustained and homelessness prevented. 
4.5   The number of approaches to WDC’s Housing Options service increased
significantly in 2021/22 linked to the Tenant Hardship Fund with high demand
continuing in 2022/23 and 2024/25. Despite a 25% reduction in approaches
during 2025/26, request for assistance remains high. 66% of cases have been
prevented from becoming homeless in Year 1.   
4.6  Since the end of emergency legislation banning evictions taking place in both
the social and private rented sector, there has been an increase in Section 11
notices, from 20 in 2020/21 to 150 in 2025/26. Of those where contact was
made and there was engagement with the household, homelessness was
prevented in 52% of cases, up from 51% last year. 
4.7     Work has started around reviewing our internal processes for rent arrears to 
prevent evictions and thus homelessness. This involves partnership working
with Housing Solutions, Housing Operations and Corporate Debt to identify
areas where we can help improve options and reduce arrears. 
4.8    The revised allocations policy which includes young people at risk of   
homelessness as an additional priority group continues to have a positive           
impact. Since its introduction in 2022, WDC have housed 69 young           
people through the scheme, with a further 7 awaiting a subsequent offer. Due to 
ongoing competing demands for limited 1 bed properties, there was a reduction 
in the number of young people being housed during 2025/26. The scheme has 
been successful in significantly reducing the levels of youth homelessness over 
recent years, however, 2025/26 saw an increase in the number of young people 
presenting as homeless to 245 from 203 the previous year. This relates to fewer 
young people approaching the prevention service for assistance, from 25% to 
19% and ongoing work around reviewing our Youth Housing Options approach. 
2018/19 2019/20 2020/21 2021/22  2022/23 2023/24 2024/25 2025/26
Prevent1 approaches 178 240 332 576 455 384 433 324
Prevent1 closures 177 221 249 378 654 385 461 349
% homelessness prevented 64% 57% 51% 52% 72% 67% 72% 66%
% closed with presentation 24% 26% 27% 31% 18% 25% 19% 22%

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4.9    As part of WDC’s work towards a Common Housing Register, Autumn 2025 
saw the roll out of the shared housing application form with steering group 
meetings held to track progress and discuss next steps in terms of phase 2 
which includes the change in circumstances form, medical assessments and an 
annual review being incorporated into the shared application process. At 
present 1 RSL has agreed to continue to a Common Housing Register via 100% 
nominations until a portal is developed for full roll out, while there are ongoing 
conversations with other RSL partners about a register and how that would work. 
4.10   Work has started around updating housing stock information and availability so 
that residents can make informed decisions. This involves reviewing          
and updating housing webpages to ensure accessibility and raising 
awareness of current stock, demand and turnover to manage expectations and   
allow residents to make realistic housing choices. 
Objective 2: Where homelessness does occur, households are rehoused
quickly. 
4.11   One of the key objectives of WDC’s Housing Solutions Strategy is to ensure            
that homeless households can access settled accommodation as quickly as 
possible. A key target is reducing the length of time homeless households with 
no/low support needs spend in temporary accommodation. 
4.12   Our Housing Solutions model considers the level of new homeless decisions,   
the backlog of homeless households, projected future demand, the number of            
lets made to homeless households and projected letting activity. The model 
uses this data to determine the number of lets that will be required for homeless 
households on an annual basis and determines a projected lettings % target. 
Calculation of homeless lets required and % of expected letting
activity required to meet need - split by LA & RSL  
Year 1 target  Year 1 actual
Lets required to meet demand  693 676
Split LA 531 497
Split RSL 162 179
% Allocation of lets required  
LA 59% 55%
RSL 59% 39%   
4.13   RSL letting activity was significantly higher than projected (464 lets as opposed 
to 275 target). The RSL homeless letting target was reduced for 2025/26 to 
reflect the low turnover of available properties in previous years, as a result RSLs 
achieved slightly higher lets to homeless households than modelled but failed to 
meet the 59% target due to more overall lets. WDC letting activity was 
slightly higher than projected (905 lets as opposed to 900 target) but as it did not 
meet its allocation target of 59%, the number of lets to homeless households 
were lower than modelled as were Youth Prevention Lets, 1% as opposed to the 
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4.14  There are as at June 2026 275 households in temporary accommodation,
including 74 children. 56 households have been waiting longer than a year to be
housed and 34 of these households are in temporary accommodation. 
4.15   Despite this, the average times for 2025/26 decreased and we exceeded the
target of 16 weeks by consistently achieving an average of 15 weeks throughout
Year 1. 
4.16   Work continued around the promotion of our HomeSwapper service as an            
additional housing option for tenants. This involved regular adverts in tour 
quarterly Housing News and contacting tenants on the transfer list with no points 
to encourage them to register with the service, alongside tenants that we 
identified from our records as having a potential match. 
Objective 3: Review and ensure there are a wide range of support services
available to prevent and end homelessness.   
4.17   WDC’s Joint Mental Health, Addictions, Housing Solutions and Housing            
Providers Protocol has been reviewed in partnership with and rolled out across 
relevant services. The Protocol will provide a more effective, joined up approach 
to support WDC tenants and homeless clients to address their addiction and/or 
mental health needs and improve their tenancy sustainment opportunities/          
achieve sustainable housing solutions.   
4.18   Work has continued around updating WDC’s No Home for Domestic Abuse 
Policy in line with the Housing (Scotland) Act 2025 and Domestic Abuse 
(Protection) (Scotland) Act 2021, (Part 2 coming into force August 2026), which 
will also impact WDC’s rent arrears and tenancy agreement processes.   
4.19   Internal support processes have been reviewed and updated to ensure that 
they capture all support needs of households and there is a greater awareness 
of all available support options in West Dunbartonshire. This has included 
reviewing relevant paperwork, ongoing staff training and guidance around 
identifying support needs, ensuring support information is up to date and 
accessible in terms of webpages and discussions at wider stakeholder 
meetings around changes to support options and processes. 
Objective 4: Working with partners to provide interim options for temporary 
accommodation and providing best quality temporary accommodation where 
required. 
4.20    There continues to be a range of interim housing options available in West 
Dunbartonshire for homeless households with more complex support needs.             
This includes supported tenancies in the community, as well as residential 
supported accommodation where this need is identified.   
4.21    Residential supported accommodation offers temporary accommodation and on-           
site support to alleviate homelessness and enable homeless households to make 
a planned transition to settled accommodation. The recommendations of the 
Review of Supported Accommodation continued to be taken forward in Year 1       
by the lead officer. Review findings informed the decision to continue the existing   
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through a direct award, and agree and implement the closure of the Bonhill 
service while securing suitable alternative supported placements for affected 
clients.   
4.22    The review has also helped clarify current provision, demand pressures and the 
need for improved monitoring, including KPIs and move on reporting. Monthly                         
Project Board meetings have also continued.   
4.23    There was a target of 30 conversions in Year 1, however only 15 were completed,           
as due to the continued demand for temporary accommodation the service can 
only offer what is available which results in a lack of choice on where households 
want to be permanently housed. 
4.24    Due to delays around the homeless service redesign, WDC’s Housing First 
service continued to operate at a reduced staffing capacity of 4 in Year 1. 
4.25    By the end of 2025/26, 7 new Housing First tenancies had been created and a 
further 11 clients are awaiting an offer of settled accommodation being made. 26 
tenancies are being sustained where the Housing First support has been 
“stepped down”, meaning a planned exit from the Housing First Service. While           
WDC’s Housing First approach continues to have a high overall tenancy 
sustainment rate, sadly 9 of these tenancies have ended due to the death of 
tenants.   
4.26     A review of the additional tendered Housing First Service was carried out in Year 
1 and due to positive feedback, it was decided that a new tender would be 
completed for a further 12 months, until February 2027. Due to service demand, 
additional Housing First funding was used to employ an additional Housing First 
Support Worker to allow for increased capacity. 
4.27    To further explore support and accommodation options for young people, a Pilot 
Young Persons Housing First Service was put out for tender and awarded 
to Blue Triangle at the end of Year 1. With the Young Persons worker now in 
post, there is capacity for an additional 10 young people to benefit from housing 
first support through this pilot.       
Year 2 Plan 
Objective 1: Homelessness is prevented by providing good quality 
advice and information to enable informed decisions on personal 
housing solutions. 
4.28    A variety of measures will continue to be used to prevent homelessness
within West Dunbartonshire. The homeless service redesign to a housing
solutions focus will progress in Year 2, which will review the Council’s delivery
of housing options interviews and personal housing solutions plans. 
4.29    The £16,363 unspent prevention fund from last year will be used to continue to        
support households at risk of homelessness in West Dunbartonshire, alongside 
the consideration of a Matched Payment Scheme approach to incentivise 
tenants to engage early and consistently with arrear repayment plans.

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4.30    The continued monitoring of the revised allocations policy which creates young 
people at risk of homelessness as an additional group given a reasonable 
preference within the policy. A subgroup including Housing Solutions Partners 
will be developed to review our youth housing options approach and how we 
can work to further prevent young people from becoming homeless.   
4.31 Work will continue around the introduction of new prevention duties including
ensuring that partner agencies are aware of ‘Ask and Act’ partner 
responsibilities in preventing homelessness and reviewing and updating 
WDC’s nomination agreement to ensure a prevention focus. 
4.32    Work towards establishing a Common Housing Register will continue in Year   
2, with one RSL continuing towards a full Common Housing Register and others
remaining partners via the shared application form. 
4.33    Improving the advice and information available to residents will remain a key             
focus in terms of updating housing stock information and availability, working
with Housing Solutions Partners to further strengthen the advice and 
information available to residents and introducing a Housing Solutions Charter
and gaining accreditation for the provision of information and advice.   
Objective 2: Where homelessness does occur, households are rehoused
quickly. 
4.34    Due to exceeding the target time homeless households with no/low needs 
spent in temporary accommodation during 2025/26, the target will be reduced
to 15 weeks in Year 2. 
4.35 Currently modelling suggests that for 2026/27 for West Dunbartonshire, 77% of
all available social tenancies, inclusive of conversions and Housing First will
require to be allocated to homeless households to ensure targeted reductions in
temporary accommodation and faster access to settled accommodation is
achieved. 
4.36    While this will not be achieved, after recognising other housing need factors it 
would not be practical to have 77% allocation of lets to homeless households.      
Therefore, partners have been asked to agree a 59% lettings target to      
homeless households. This objective was supported by the Housing  
Improvement Board in terms of lets made by the Council and a similar
commitment was sought from RSL partners via their annual Housing Solutions 
Contribution Statements. 
4.37    There is also a shared desire to provide scope for an element of overall letting 
activity to be directed to prevent homelessness and reduce future demand. 
Calculation of homeless lets required and % of expected letting
activity required to meet need - split by LA & RSL 
Year 2
Lets required for to meet demand  752
Split LA 531
Split RSL 221

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Projected turnover  Year 2
Split LA 900
Split RSL 375
% Allocation of lets required Year 2
LA 59%
RSL 59% 
4.38 As 59% is not enough to fully meet demand and clear the backlog of households
in temporary accommodation, this will result in a shortfall of around 224 lets and
fifty-five additional units required for temporary accommodation. 
4.39    If additional temporary accommodation units are required, this reduces lets      
available for mainstream offers and would also require additional staff 
resources to manage the additional units. 
4.40    Work will continue around exploring different housing options to meet housing 
need in West Dunbartonshire including working with RSL partners to consider 
the development of a common mutual exchange scheme and promoting and 
reviewing WDC’s downsizing scheme.   
Objective 3: Review and ensure there are a wide range of support services
available to prevent and end homelessness. 
4.41    Following the redesign of the homeless service, work will progress around 
embedding a new housing support service which will include working with key           
stakeholders to explore long term housing support options to promote tenancy           
sustainment and prevent homelessness, exploring options to fund and provide 
more informal and practical types of support for certain groups that would not fall 
into prescribed housing support and the creation of a youth specialist housing 
support team.   
4.42    In line with the homeless service redesign, work will continue around reviewing 
internal support processes to prevent and end homelessness in West 
Dunbartonshire.   
4.43    Partnership protocols with key stakeholders will continue to be monitored and 
reviewed, including WDC’s Joint Mental Health, Addictions, Housing Solutions 
and Housing Providers Protocol, our Domestic Abuse Protocol in line with 
legislative changes and our Prison Discharge process against SHORE standards. 
4.44   The creation of a Joint Kinship Care, Housing Solutions and Housing Providers 
Protocol will also be explored in Year 2.   
4.45    Continue to review our processes and practices to ensure they meet the needs of 
underrepresented groups, such as the LGBTQ+ community. 
Objective 4: Working with partners to provide Interim options for temporary
accommodation and providing best quality temporary accommodation where
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4.46   The review of Residential Supported Accommodation will continue to progress 
in Year 2 around the implementation of agreed actions, monitoring of outcomes 
and move on planning and the consideration of future supported 
accommodation needs. Monthly meetings with the Project Board will continue 
and an updated progress report will be presented to a future Housing and 
Communities Committee.   
4.47    The delivery of rapid access accommodation will be explored in partnership 
with HSCP colleagues which will involve jointly defining referral pathways, 
gathering information on service priorities and reviewing working protocols. 
4.48    Once the redesign of the homeless service has occurred WDC’s Housing First 
service will be back to full capacity of 8 staff members, enabling support to 
continue for the 23 active tenancies and the 11 waiting to be housed. 
Collaborative funding options will continue to be explored with HSCP partners 
as current funding does not allow the service to fully meet 
identified demand. Both the additional tendered Housing First Service and                       
Pilot Young Persons Housing First Service will be reviewed to decide whether 
to extend beyond 2026/27.   
Funding update   
4.49 In November 2025, as part of the Housing Emergency Action Plan, the Scottish
Government announced in its Programme for Government an additional £1
million Housing First funding uplift for 2025/26 to scale up the Housing First
approach nationally, alongside £3 million of Housing First Capital funding to
enable and support the acquisition of suitable properties for the delivery of
Housing First. It was also confirmed that a further £8 million would be provided
to local authorities to support their approaches to homelessness for 2026/27. 
4.50    WDC were allocated £25,863 as part of Housing First uplift funding which was 
used to extend and increase the external Housing First contract from 1 to 2 
workers for the rest of Year 1 and continue with 2 support workers in Year 2.             
The £92,137 allocation of Housing First capital funding has been used to bring 
an additional properties back into use as Housing First tenancies through the 
Council’s buyback scheme. 
4.51 The formula still being used to allocate local authorities share of this funding is
based on the number of homeless assessments made in a local authority area
over a three-year period. There has been some criticism of this approach as it
does not consider homelessness prevention work within the assessment. It can
therefore act as a disincentive to make the wider system changes advocated
within Ending Homelessness. 
4.52 The Scottish Government and COSLA had hoped to explore the possibility of
joining up the funding stream for preventing and responding to homelessness
with the rapid rehousing funding stream and to look at alternative distribution
formulas. However, this work has been delayed due to competing priorities. 
4.53    The same formula has therefore been used for the funding allocation for
2026/27. This formula has resulted in an allocation for West Dunbartonshire
Council of £236,015 to deliver Year 2 of our Housing Solutions Strategy which

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incorporates the Council’s approach to rapid rehousing. In addition, the Scottish
Government have also confirmed the funding allocation to West Dunbartonshire
Council for the provision of homelessness prevention and response
mainstream services, this is separate to the Housing Solutions funding and
provided within the Revenue Grant provided to local authorities by the Scottish
Government. 
Housing Solutions Year 2 funding 
Year 1 underspend £213,786
SG funding for Year 2 £236,015
Year 2 total funding £449,801 
4.54 A full review of Year 1 activities has been carried out, and the Year 2 Housing
Solutions plan has been refreshed to take account of available funding.
Housing Solutions Year 2 costings 
Housing First external service  £104,500
Housing First Youth Pilot  £53,900
Pilot Prevention Fund £16,363
Conversion Programme  £100,000
Downsizing Scheme  £70,000
Resettlement Support  £105,038 
Year 2 total cost £449,801 
4.55   With WDC’s Housing First service now being fully funded internally, this 
year’s additional Scottish Government funding will be used to pilot a
downsizing scheme and provide resettlement support. 
Housing Emergency 
4.56  The Council declared a housing emergency on 1st May 2024 due to the
extreme pressures facing housing and homelessness services within West
Dunbartonshire. A national housing emergency was declared by the
Scottish Government on 15th May 2024. 
4.57 An updated report on the progress of West Dunbartonshire’s Housing
Emergency Action Plan will be provided as a separate agenda item at the
Housing and Communities Committee on the 12th August 2026. 
5. People Implications 
5.1 Any additional post required to strengthen the team will be recruited in line with
the Council’s existing recruitment policy and will be funded from the Scottish
Government funding for the provision of homelessness prevention and response. 
6. Financial and Procurement Implications 
6.1 The Cabinet Secretary for Housing wrote to West Dunbartonshire on 11th
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for 2026/27 of £236,015. This funding will be included in the regular payments
of the 2026/27 General Revenue Grant. 
6.2 In addition the Scottish Government also confirmed the funding allocation to
West Dunbartonshire Council for the provision of homelessness prevention and
response mainstream services, this funding will be paid as part of the General
Revenue Grant payment, with the first payment in 2026/27 made on 1 April
2026.   
6.3 Further Housing Solutions funding beyond 2026/27 is unclear. Committee will
be updated at a future meeting once confirmed plans for future years are
received. 
6.4 The Year 2 delivery plan fully allocates the available Housing Solutions funding
of £449,801, comprising £213,786 Year 1 underspend and £236,015 Scottish
Government funding for 2026/27. Any activity or staffing commitment required
beyond the period covered by confirmed funding will require further review and
will be considered through future budget and service planning processes. 
6.5 There are no procurement implications in terms of this report. 
7. Risk Analysis 
7.1      There are financial, operational, reputational and regulatory risks associated
with not being able to fully deliver the Housing Solutions Strategy, including the
Housing First element of the approach. These risks are heightened by the local
and national housing emergency, continued demand for temporary
accommodation, limited social housing supply and the need to reduce the time
homeless households spend in temporary accommodation. 
7.2      If the 59% lettings target is not achieved, or if overall turnover is lower than
projected, there is a risk that the backlog of households in temporary
accommodation will increase, additional temporary accommodation units will
be required, and fewer lets will be available for mainstream housing need. This
could also increase staffing and management pressures and affect the
Council’s ability to demonstrate progress against housing emergency and
homelessness commitments. 
7.3      There is no confirmation of Housing Solutions funding beyond 2026/27. This
creates a risk that successful prevention, Housing First, resettlement support,
downsizing and temporary accommodation initiatives may not be sustainable
without future funding. Officers will continue to monitor expenditure, outcomes
and demand pressures and will report back to Committee once the future
national funding position is confirmed. 
8. Equalities Impact Assessment (EIA) 
8.1 There are no negative equalities impacts due to the implementation of WDC’s
Housing Solutions Strategy, however preventing and responding to homelessness
has a significant positive impact on individuals and communities. There are
potential positive impacts for some groups as noted in the EIA conducted for the
Housing Solutions Strategy in July 2026, EIA 1518.

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9. Environmental Sustainability 
9.1  Our current and future approach to strategic housing asset management will
continue to prioritise a ‘zero carbon’ approach to decision making and
deliverability and this will be achieved through the aims of the Housing Asset
Management Strategy and the Council’s Climate Change Strategy. 
10. Consultation 
10.1    The Housing Solutions Strategy was developed in collaboration with key   
partners, including HSCP, local RSLs, third sector organisations, WDTRO 
(West Dunbartonshire Tenants and Residents Organisation) and households   
experiencing homelessness, via focus groups, surveys, staff meetings and             
community and stakeholder events. 
11.  Strategic Assessment 
11.1 Having considered the Council's strategic priorities, this report contributes
significantly to all strategic priorities. 
Peter Barry
Chief Officer, Housing 
Date: 29 July 2026
___________________________________________________________________ 
Person to Contact:       John Kerr – Housing Development and Homelessness
Manager, Housing Development and Homelessness Team,
Housing and Employability, telephone: 07793717981, email:
john.kerr@west-dunbarton.gov.uk 
Donna Kirkwood, Senior Housing Development Officer,                                         
Housing Development and Homelessness Team, Housing 
and Employability, email:                                         
donna.kirkwood@westdunbarton.gov.uk                                                                                             
Appendices: None     
Background Papers:     
Ending Homelessness Together – High Level Action Plan;
Scottish Government/COSLA
https://www.gov.scot/binaries/content/documents/govscot/
publications/publication/2018/11/ending-homelessness-
together-high-level-action-plan/documents/00543359-
pdf/00543359-pdf/govscot%3Adocument 
HARSAG2 recommendations tracker, West
Dunbartonshire Council Housing Development and
Homelessness Team, June 2026;

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Housing and Communities Committee Report 20th August
2025 “Rapid Rehousing Transition Plan and new
approaches to homeless update”; 
West Dunbartonshire Council Housing Emergency Action
Plan, July 2026; 
Letter from Mairi McAllan, MSP, Cabinet Secretary for
Housing on Distribution of Housing First RRTP Funding
Uplift for 2025/26 and funding of RRTPs for 2026/27; 11
November 2025; 
Letter from Mairi McAllan, MSP, Cabinet Secretary for
Housing on Distribution of Housing First Capital Funding
for 2025/26; 20 November 2025; 
“More than a Roof” West Dunbartonshire Council’s
Homelessness Prevention and Temporary
Accommodation Strategy 2017-2020. 
West Dunbartonshire Council’s Local Housing Strategy
2022-2027; 
West Dunbartonshire Council’s Revised Rapid Rehousing
Transition Plan including Action Plan and Equalities Impact
Assessment, Home at the Heart 
West Dunbartonshire Council’s Housing Solutions
Strategy, Action Plan and Equalities Impact Assessment,   
Housing Solutions Strategy 27.03.25 
Wards Affected:             All