HOUSING, INFRASTRUCTURE AND REGENERATION

In 2023, the Mayor established the South Yorkshire Mayoral Homelessness Task Group. The aim of this group is to find ways to reduce and prevent homelessness through partnership working and fill gaps in the existing provision.

The Task Group brings together representatives from the four local authorities in South Yorkshire, people with lived experience, South Yorkshire Housing Partnership, voluntary and community groups, housing and health providers, South Yorkshire Probation Service and the office of Police and Crime Commissioner. Its work will complement and support local authorities in South Yorkshire who have a legal duty to prevent homelessness and already provide essential services.

To help the Task Group better understand the incidence of homelessness and current experiences of people who’ve been made homeless in South Yorkshire, a comprehensive research project was commissioned by South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority (SYMCA), on behalf of the Mayor. 

The findings have provided the Task Group with the evidence they need to develop more effective policies and practices in the future. The report’s researchers have also put forward a number of areas where the Task Group can take action and collaborate with key stakeholders to tackle homelessness across the region.  

Click here to read the full report ( PDF 1MB).

The Brownfield Housing Fund is now closed, but you can still get in touch if you want to discuss any housing and development opportunities in South Yorkshire with our Growth Hub team, who you can contact via website, email and phone.

If you would like to find out more about the Brownfield Housing Fund, read our press release.

The DIS is part of, and covers, one of three key areas of activity critical to providing a strategic approach to addressing the digital agenda across South Yorkshire in an integrated way. The other areas are digital ‘skills’ and digital ‘innovation and business support.’ The strategies and actions for delivering them will be developed by the MCA over the next 12-18 months in liaison with partners and stakeholders, and together will form the three component parts of the holistic approach for driving digital innovation and inclusivity to deliver the Strategic Economic Plan’s (SEP) digital ambitions.

South Yorkshire is well positioned to rely on the market to deliver much of the Gigabit broadband and mobile coverage the region needs. We will encourage operators to invest in the region with consistent and supportive policies, but we will also access Central Government Gigabit investment to deliver for harder to reach areas and address the challenges of digital exclusion.
Through the Superfast South Yorkshire programme the MCA and local authorities have made high speed broadband available to over 98% of the 650,000 properties in the region.

Read more on the Digital ‘Infrastructure’ Strategy (DIS) Pdf 4.78mb today.

Our priorities and actions to deliver the Digital ‘Infrastructure’ Strategy are set out in the accompanying Digital ‘Infrastructure’ Strategy (DIS) Delivery Plan Pdf 820kb.

Partners across South Yorkshire have launched an action plan in response to flood risk and the climate emergency on a catchment scale. 

The Connected by Water Action Plan is the culmination of partners working together since the devastating floods of November 2019, with an ambition to reduce flood risk and build climate resilience so that communities can live, work, and thrive in South Yorkshire in the face of a changing climate.

Visit our Connected by Water dedicated page to view the plan. 

Superfast South Yorkshire is a partnership of Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham and Sheffield Local Authorities and South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority. It was established in 2014 to improve the digital infrastructure throughout South Yorkshire.

The first phase of our roll-out was delivered in partnership with Openreach completed in September 2019. It saw almost £27m funding invested to reach an additional 95,000 premises. The second phase is currently in delivery and has brought gigabit capable broadband on the Openreach network to an additional 6,000 premises. Over 100,000 residents and businesses have directly benefited from the programme. 

In 2022 Superfast South Yorkshire partnered with South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority to deliver part of the Digital Infrastructure Strategy. This Digital ‘Infrastructure’ Strategy is part of, and covers, one of three key areas of activity critical to providing a strategic approach to addressing the digital agenda across South Yorkshire in an integrated way.

Visit our Superfast South Yorkshire page to learn more.

South Yorkshire needs homes that people in our communities can thrive in. . Safe, warm and affordable homes should be available to all.

That’s why we’ve been working with partners across South Yorkshire to create the SY Housing Framework, to help build and shape our priorities for housing in the region.

Read more on our Housing Framework  ( Pdf, 7mb).