ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the three main linkages that are crucial to a local authority housing strategy, namely: the link between central and local government in terms of housing policy, the link between local authority housing and planning departments, and the link between housing producers and planning authorities. It illustrates the way in which linkages between these important participants in the housing market have evolved. The chapter focuses upon housing strategies, highlighting their development and formalisation as part of the Housing Investment Programmes (HIP) process, illustrating that in the 1990s housing strategy statements became seen as a strategic document in their own right, separate from the HIP process. It then focuses more directly on the theme of co-ordination within the local authority. Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, there had been a tendency amongst local government managers and academics working in the area of public management to try to develop corporate management techniques.
