A Strategy for Housing Growth and Place Making Where Communities Can Thrive
Welcome to Our Housing Strategy
Housing plays a fundamental role in shaping people's lives in Bury, supporting health and wellbeing, enabling independence, and creating the conditions for strong, thriving communities.
Bury is a borough of ambition, character, and strong communities. Housing is fundamental to everything we want to achieve, from reducing inequality and improving health, to driving economic growth and creating places people are proud to call home.
This 10-year strategy sets a clear long-term direction for housing in Bury and a strong commitment to turning priorities into meaningful action through partnership working, accountability, and ongoing monitoring. It is rooted in robust evidence and shaped by engagement with residents, stakeholders, and partners, ensuring it reflects both housing need and lived experience. While we have made real progress, delivering new homes, regenerating our town centres, and supporting vulnerable residents, there is more to do, and this strategy sets a clear course for the decade ahead.
As a council, we are proud of our role as a landlord, committed to providing safe, high-quality homes and continuously improving services for our tenants. We will continue to invest in our homes and neighbourhoods to ensure they remain safe, well-managed, and fit for the future.
Operating within tight financial constraints, we must do more with less, and will prioritise partnership, innovation, and collaboration with Registered Providers, developers, investors, and communities to unlock delivery and make the best use of available resources.
Through the Team Bury approach, we will work together, we are focused on what matters most to residents and communities across the borough.
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Bury is part of the Greater Manchester Combined Authority, working regionally to deliver more homes and stronger communities. |
Acknowledgements
Bury Council would like to thank everyone who contributed to the development of the Homes for Bury Housing Strategy 2026-2036. In particular, we are grateful to the tenants and residents of Bury whose views, experiences, and priorities have helped shape the strategy.
We would also like to thank the officers and elected members of Bury Council who contributed their time, insight, and expertise throughout the process.
Thanks are extended to the following services, organisations, and stakeholder groups who participated in interviews, workshops, and engagement activity:
- Tenants and Residents of Bury
- Bury Council officers
- Bury Council elected members
- Team Bury partners
- Persona Care and Support
- Greater Manchester health and care partners
- Greater Manchester Combined Authority
- Homes England
- Registered Providers and housing association partners
- Developers and housebuilders
- Private rented sector landlords and letting agents
- Sales and lettings professionals
- Community safety partners
- Domestic abuse services and partners
- Specialist housing, supported housing, and care partners
- Employment, skills, and poverty reduction partners
- Voluntary, community, and social enterprise sector partners
Their input has helped ensure the strategy is grounded in local evidence, lived experience, and partner insight, and reflects the shared ambition to provide safe, affordable, and suitable homes where Bury’s communities can thrive.