Status: Current

The council is consulting on its draft homelessness and rough sleeping strategy from 14 April to midnight on 1 June 2025. We welcome your views on our plans to prevent and reduce homelessness in Rother.

The strategy will set out how we will deliver our housing and homelessness services in the future. It will cover from 2025 to 2030.

The strategy has five key themes:

• Reducing homelessness via early intervention and prevention.
• Increasing housing accessibility.
• Improving the supply and quality of temporary accommodation.
• Reducing homelessness and rough sleeping for people with multiple and complex needs.
• Improving the quality and suitability of housing.

We would like to hear from residents, businesses, the building industry and organisations involved in the housing sector who might benefit from the strategy.  We would most like to hear from:

• Residents at risk of homelessness.
• Residents who need social housing.
• Affordable and social housing suppliers, housing developers and builders.
• Public services that might be impacted by homelessness and rough sleeping.
• Town and parish councils.
• Organisations that work with residents experiencing or at risk of homelessness, on low incomes and in social housing.
• Local businesses that might be impacted by homelessness and rough sleeping.
• People who might need housing services when discharged from hospital or on leaving prison as there are specific proposals for these groups.

Please read the draft strategy on our website before answering our consultation.

How to Take Part in this Consultation

Please use our online questionnaire – https://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/HomelessStrategy25/

Questions about the consultation and written submissions can be emailed to consultations@rother.gov.uk

If we get any frequently asked questions we will provide answers on this web page.

Written submissions can be posted to –

Homelessness and Rough Sleeping Strategy Consultation
Rother District Council
Town Hall
Bexhill-on-Sea
TN39 3JX

This consultation closes at midnight on 1 June 2025.