A Bed Every Night
A Greater Manchester programme providing emergency accommodation and support for people sleeping rough or at risk of rough sleeping.
Accessible and adaptable homes
Homes designed or capable of being adapted to meet the needs of people with disabilities, mobility issues, or changing needs over time.
Affordable housing
Housing provided below market cost for eligible households whose needs are not met by the open market. This can include social rent, affordable rent, shared ownership, and other affordable home ownership products.
Affordable home ownership
Housing products that help households buy a home at a lower cost than the open market, such as shared ownership and discount market housing.
Affordable rent
Rented housing let by councils or Registered Providers at below market rent, but usually above social rent levels.
Ageing in place
Supporting people to remain living safely and independently in their own home or community as they grow older.
Ageing well at home
An approach focused on helping older residents plan ahead, access adaptations, support and technology, and remain independent for longer.
Allocations
The process by which social or affordable rented homes are let to households, usually through a housing register or choice-based lettings system.
Article 4 Direction
A planning tool that removes certain permitted development rights, meaning specific changes, such as conversion to Houses in Multiple Occupation, require planning permission.
Asset Management Strategy
A strategic plan for managing, maintaining, and investing in housing stock and land assets over the long term.
Assistive technology
Technology that supports people to live independently, such as falls detectors, digital alarms, sensors, medication reminders, and GPS devices.
B&B accommodation
Bed and breakfast accommodation used as temporary housing, usually for households experiencing homelessness. It is generally considered unsuitable for long-term use, especially for families.
Biodiversity net gain
An approach to development that leaves the natural environment in a measurably better state than before.
Brownfield land
Previously developed land that may be vacant, derelict, or underused and may be suitable for reuse for housing or regeneration.
Build-to-Rent
Purpose-built private rented housing, usually delivered and managed by institutional investors or specialist operators.
Buy Back Policy
A council policy that allows the acquisition of former Right to Buy homes, empty properties or new-build homes to increase affordable or temporary housing supply.
Carbon neutral
A position where carbon emissions are reduced as far as possible, with any remaining emissions balanced by removal or offsetting.
Care leavers
Young people who have been looked after by the local authority and are transitioning from care into adulthood and independent living.
Community hubs
Local facilities that bring together services, support, activities, and advice for residents.
Community-led housing
Housing developed or managed with significant involvement from local communities, often to meet locally identified needs.
Commuted sums
Financial contributions paid by developers to meet needs arising from new development (for example for recreation) or instead of delivering affordable housing directly on-site, secured through planning obligations.
Council homes
Homes owned and managed by the council, usually let at social or affordable rents.
Cross-subsidy
A delivery model where income from market housing or commercial uses helps fund affordable housing or regeneration.
Decent Homes Standard
A minimum standard for social housing, covering issues such as repair, facilities, warmth, and modernisation.
Deferred land payment
A development arrangement where payment for land is delayed, helping improve scheme viability or delivery.
Development framework
A planning and delivery document that sets principles for how a major site should be developed, including the existing characteristics of the site, a future vision and masterplan for the site, development principles against which future planning applications will be assessed, and essential infrastructure requirements.
Digital connectivity
Access to reliable digital infrastructure, such as broadband and mobile connectivity, supporting independence, services, and modern living.
Disabled Facilities Grant
Funding used to adapt homes so disabled residents can live safely and independently, for example through stairlifts, ramps, or accessible bathrooms.
District heat network
A low-carbon heating system that supplies heat to multiple buildings from a central source.
Downsizing
Moving to a smaller home, often because a larger property is no longer needed or suitable.
Emerging Local Plan
Bury’s developing statutory planning document setting out how land will be used and developed, including housing, employment, infrastructure, and affordable housing requirements.
Empty homes
Properties that are unoccupied. Long-term empty homes are usually those empty for six months or more.
Energy Company Obligation
A government energy efficiency scheme requiring energy suppliers to fund improvements to eligible homes.
Energy efficiency
Measures that reduce energy use in homes, such as insulation, efficient heating, better windows, and renewable energy.
Energy Performance Certificate
A rating showing how energy efficient a property is, usually graded from A to G.
Estate regeneration
Investment, redevelopment, or remodelling of council estates to improve homes, public spaces, infrastructure, and neighbourhood quality.
Extra Care housing
Self-contained housing for older people or adults with care needs, with access to on-site care and support, often available 24 hours a day.
Fabric-first approach
A retrofit approach that prioritises improving the building itself, such as insulation, windows, and ventilation, before installing new heating systems.
First-time buyers
Households seeking to purchase their first home, often affected by affordability pressures.
Fuel poverty
A situation where a household struggles to afford adequate heating and energy due to low-income, high-energy costs or inefficient housing.
Greater Manchester Combined Authority
The regional authority made up of Greater Manchester councils and the Mayor of Greater Manchester, coordinating strategic work on housing, transport, growth, and other priorities.
Good Growth Fund
A Greater Manchester funding stream used to support regeneration, investment, and inclusive growth.
Green and blue infrastructure
Natural and semi-natural spaces such as parks, trees, rivers, ponds, and wetlands that support health, biodiversity, drainage, and climate resilience.
Gypsies, Travellers, and Travelling Show People
Communities with specific accommodation needs, including pitches and plots, considered through housing and planning evidence.
Homelessness prevention
Action taken early to stop people becoming homeless, such as advice, mediation, tenancy sustainment, or support to access alternative housing.
Homelessness Strategy
A local strategy setting out how the council and partners will prevent and respond to homelessness.
Housing First
An approach that provides stable housing as the first step for people with complex needs, alongside intensive support.
Housing-led regeneration
Regeneration where new housing plays a central role in revitalising places, increasing footfall, supporting services, and attracting investment.
Housing market area
A geographical area with shared housing market characteristics, such as prices, demand, tenure, and stock type.
Housing Needs and Demand Assessment
Evidence that identifies current and future housing needs, including type, tenure, size, affordability, and specialist housing requirements.
Housing register
A list of households applying for social or affordable rented housing.
Housing requirement
The minimum number of homes that the development plan seeks to provide over the plan period.
Housing Revenue Account
A ring-fenced council account used to manage income and expenditure relating to council housing.
Housing standards
Legal, regulatory, or policy expectations for the condition, safety, quality, and management of homes.
Houses in Multiple Occupation
Properties occupied by multiple unrelated households who share facilities such as kitchens or bathrooms.
Inclusive growth
Economic growth that benefits all residents and communities, especially those experiencing disadvantage.
Infill development
Building new homes on small or underused plots within existing built-up areas or estates.
Infrastructure
Services and facilities needed to support development and communities, including roads, schools, healthcare, green space, public transport, and utilities.
Institutional investment
Investment from large organisations, such as pension funds or investment funds, often used to support Build-to-Rent or regeneration schemes.
Joint Housing Protocol
An agreed approach between services, such as housing and children’s services, to support care leavers and young people into suitable accommodation.
Joint venture
A partnership arrangement where two or more organisations work together to deliver a project, sharing risks, investment, and benefits.
Key workers
People employed in essential services, such as health, care, education, public services, or local industries, who may need affordable housing close to work.
Lease and Repair Scheme
A scheme where the council works with private owners to bring empty properties back into use, offering repair support, management, and guaranteed rental income.
Level-access homes
Homes designed without steps or with accessible layouts, making them suitable for people with mobility needs.
Live Well in Bury
A local preventative support offer helping residents access advice, community support, and services to improve wellbeing and independence.
Local Authority Housing Fund
Government funding available to councils to provide housing for specific groups and support temporary and permanent accommodation solutions.
Local Housing Allowance
The rate used to calculate housing benefit or Universal Credit housing support for private renters.
Local Plan
A statutory planning document setting out where and how development should happen in a local authority area.
Low-carbon heating
Heating systems that produce lower carbon emissions than traditional gas heating, such as heat pumps or district heat networks.
Market housing
Housing sold or rented at open market prices without subsidy.
Mayoral Development Zone
A designated area supported by mayoral powers to accelerate growth, investment, and regeneration.
Micro-schemes
Small-scale specialist housing schemes, often designed for people with complex needs who require tailored support.
Mixed tenure
Development that includes different housing tenures, such as market sale, private rent, social rent, affordable rent, and shared ownership.
Modern Methods of Construction
Innovative building techniques, often including off-site manufacturing, used to speed up delivery and improve quality.
Move-on accommodation
Housing that enables people to move from temporary, supported, or emergency accommodation into more settled housing.
Multiple disadvantage
Experiencing several overlapping challenges, such as homelessness, mental ill health, substance misuse, offending, or domestic abuse.
Nationally Described Space Standards
National standards setting minimum internal space requirements for new homes.
Net zero carbon
A state where carbon emissions from a home or development are reduced as far as possible and any remaining emissions are balanced.
Neighbourhood model
A way of organising services locally around communities, often through multidisciplinary teams and local hubs.
No Recourse to Public Funds
An immigration condition preventing a person from accessing most welfare benefits, housing assistance, or public funds.
Older persons’ accommodation
Housing designed for older people, which may include independent living, age-exclusive housing, sheltered housing, or Extra Care.
Own front door accommodation
Self-contained housing where residents have their own tenancy and private living space, rather than shared or institutional accommodation.
PAS 2035
A national standard for domestic retrofit, setting out how retrofit projects should be assessed, designed, and delivered.
Patient equity
Long-term investment that accepts slower returns to support regeneration or development over time.
Pathway Plans
Plans used to support care leavers as they move towards adulthood, including housing, education, employment, and support needs.
People with additional needs
Residents who may require adapted housing, support, or specialist accommodation due to age, disability, mental health, learning disability, autism, or other circumstances.
Places for Everyone
The joint strategic plan for Greater Manchester districts, setting housing and employment growth requirements and allocating strategic sites.
Placemaking
Designing and managing places so they are attractive, safe, inclusive, healthy, and well connected.
Planning obligations
Legal agreements, often known as Section 106 agreements, used to secure affordable housing, infrastructure, or other contributions from development.
Prevention-first approach
A service model focused on acting early to avoid crises, such as homelessness, hospital admission or tenancy breakdown.
Private Rented Sector
Homes rented from private landlords, including individual landlords, letting agents and institutional providers.
Private Sector Housing Enforcement Policy
A council policy setting out how statutory powers will be used to tackle poor housing standards and management in private housing.
Purple Flag accreditation
An accreditation recognising town centres that offer a safe, welcoming, and well-managed evening and night-time economy.
Registered Provider
A housing association or other organisation registered to provide social housing.
Registered Provider Framework
A council framework of selected housing associations used to support affordable housing delivery on council-owned or other sites.
Regeneration framework
A plan setting out the long-term vision, principles, and delivery approach for transforming an area.
Renters’ Rights Act
Legislation intended to strengthen protections for private renters and increase responsibilities for landlords and local authorities.
Retrofit
Improving existing homes to make them warmer, healthier, more energy efficient, and lower carbon.
Retrofit GM
A Greater Manchester programme supporting large-scale retrofit of homes across the city-region.
Right to Buy
A scheme allowing eligible council tenants to purchase their council home at a discount.
Right to Buy receipts
Money received by councils from Right to Buy sales, which can be used to support replacement affordable housing.
Right-sizing
Helping households move to a home that better matches their needs, whether smaller, more accessible, or more affordable.
Rough sleeping
Sleeping outside or in places not designed for habitation, such as streets, cars, tents, or abandoned buildings.
Section 106 agreement
A legal agreement between a council and developer securing planning obligations, such as affordable housing or financial contributions.
Selective licensing
A licensing scheme requiring private landlords in designated areas to meet management and property standards.
Shared ownership
An affordable home ownership model where a household buys a share of a property and pays rent on the remaining share.
Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund
Government funding to improve the energy efficiency and carbon performance of social housing.
Social rent
Rented housing provided by councils or Registered Providers at rents typically lower than affordable rent and market rent.
Specialist housing
Housing designed for people with specific needs, such as older people, disabled people, people with learning disabilities, autistic people, or those with mental health needs.
Staying Put
Arrangements allowing young people leaving care to remain living with former foster carers after they turn 18.
Strategic allocations
Large development sites allocated through a plan for long-term housing, employment, or mixed-use growth.
Supported accommodation
Housing with support services provided to help residents live independently or move towards independence.
Supported housing
Housing linked to support for people who need help to live independently, including older people, care leavers, people with disabilities, or people experiencing homelessness.
Supported living
Self-contained or shared housing where people with care or support needs receive assistance while maintaining independence.
Sustainable communities
Places that are well designed, connected, inclusive, environmentally responsible, and supported by infrastructure and services.
Temporary accommodation
Short-term accommodation provided to households experiencing homelessness while longer-term housing options are arranged.
Tenant Incentive Scheme
A scheme supporting tenants to move to more suitable homes, often helping those under-occupying larger properties to downsize.
Tenant voice
The involvement and influence of tenants in shaping housing services, decisions, policies, and priorities.
Tenancy sustainment
Support that helps people keep their home, manage rent, resolve issues, and avoid homelessness.
Tenure
The basis on which a home is occupied, such as owner occupation, private rent, social rent, affordable rent, or shared ownership.
Technology Enabled Care
Digital and assistive technologies that help people live safely and independently at home.
Town centre living
New housing in town centres, supporting regeneration, footfall, local services, public transport use, and mixed-use places.
Trauma-informed support
Support that recognises the impact of trauma and seeks to avoid re-traumatisation, build trust, and respond sensitively to individual needs.
Under-occupation
Where a household lives in a home larger than it needs, often creating opportunities for rightsizing to free larger homes for families.
Viability
Whether a development is financially deliverable after accounting for costs, values, affordable housing, infrastructure, and developer return.
Warm Homes Local Grant
Funding used to improve energy efficiency and low-carbon heating in homes, especially for low-income households at risk of fuel poverty.
Wheelchair-user standards
Housing standards requiring homes to be suitable, or easily adaptable, for wheelchair users.
Whole house retrofit
A coordinated approach to improving the entire home, including insulation, ventilation, heating, and renewable energy, rather than isolated measures.
WorkWell
A programme supporting people to remain in or return to employment, linked to wider wellbeing and economic resilience.
Zero net carbon in operation
A standard where a building’s day-to-day energy use produces no net carbon emissions, usually through high efficiency and low-carbon or renewable energy.