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Opportunities & innovations in housing delivery
LGA Housing Conference21st March 2017
Henry Smith, Projects & Policy Manager, TCPA
@thetcpa @henrytcpa
www.tcpa.org.uk @thetcpa
Presentation overview 1. Introduction to the TCPA2. Policy update3. Building homes together: report
and findings4. Next steps
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2. Policy update
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Housing White Paper – what does it mean for housing delivery?• Viability test - unchanged• Definition of affordable housing• Commitment to work with
councils on options for increasing supply
• RtB on local authority housing companies
Policy update
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Housing White Paper – what does it mean for planning?• New Towns Development
Corporations• New strategic planning framework• Removes expectation for a single
local plan• Place making standards?• Higher planning fees• Standardised approach to assessing
housing requirements• Housing delivery test Full analysis: https://www.tcpa.org.uk/housing-
white-paper-2017
3. Building homes together
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Policy analysis
Identification of series of case
studies
• Urban/rural
• Across England
• Various scales
• Range of housing challenges
Case study structure
• Summary
• Housing and planning context
• How is it innovative?
• Lessons
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Summary of learning points
1) New housing models
• Councils playing a lead role through working
in partnership with developers to test new
models (Gateshead Regeneration Partnership)
• Local authority housing companies being
established (South Cambridgeshire District
Council)
3. Building homes together
• New affordable housing products are being trialled (Plymouth City
Council)
• Community land trusts being supported through s106 funds
(Northumberland County Council)
Image: Gateshead Regeneration Partnership
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2) Leadership for locally led growth
• New governance structures being
established to deliver on public sector land
(East Hampshire District Council)
• Building capacity and skills using central
government funding to resource on
section 106 agreements (Ashford Borough
Council)
3. Building homes together
• Establishing a community management organisation to put local
stewardship at the heart of high quality new development (Ashford
Borough Council)
Image: South Cambs District Council
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3) Planning and place making
• Holistic approaches to
placemaking through securing
infrastructure early on (East
Hampshire District Council)
• Bringing together strategies
into one plan (Plymouth City
Council)
3. Building homes together
• Setting up developer forums to feed in to local plan
process (Gedling Borough Council)
Image: Gateshead Regeneration Partnership
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4) Integrating health and housing
• Healthy New Towns (East
Hampshire District Council and
South Cambridgeshire District
Council)
• Affordable housing on rural
exception sites and partnership
working on the Cambridgeshire
Older People Accommodation
Strategy (South Cambridgeshire
District Council)
3. Building homes together
Image: South Cambs District Council
4. Next stepswww.tcpa.org.uk @thetcpa
Housing White Paper consultation
Changes to the NPPF
Will Local Authority innovation be supported?
Options available to councils to secure mixed tenure homes
4. Upcoming events
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• Launch of Building Homes: Creating Communities with
APSE in House of Commons, Committee Room 15: 23rd
May, 15.00 – 17.00
To attend email: [email protected]
• How can councils secure the delivery of more
affordable homes? New models, partnerships and
innovations
Free regional seminars:
• 13th June, 12:30 – 16:00, TCPA, London
• 20th June, 12.30 – 16.00, Manchester Central Library
• 11th July, 12.30 – 16.00, Priory Street Centre, York
• 18th July, 12.30 – 16.00, Exeter Community Centre
More information and to book:
https://www.tcpa.org.uk/how-can-councils-secure-the-
delivery-of-more-affordable-homes