Transcript Housing in Kent

Kent Housing Group
‘The Voice of Housing in Kent’
KENT & MEDWAY LEADERS
HOUSING STRATEGY
Better Homes:
Localism,
Aspiration
and Choice
Brian Horton
Strategic Housing Advisor
29 September 2010
Kent Housing Group
‘The Voice of Housing in Kent’
Kent & Medway Housing
Significant
Challenges
also…
Significant
Opportunities
Reflect as well
as influence
Government
Priorities
The
Strategy
aims
to:
Be Fit
for
Purpose
Make a
Case for
Government
Investment
Celebrate
Examples of
Best Practice
Promote
Be an inclusive
process that
builds on
existing
Strategies
Innovation
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Add value and
contribute to
delivery of local
ambitions
Scope and Structure of the Kent and Medway
Strategic Housing Market Assessment (SHMA)
Need vs. Supply
Over 40,000
households on
Needs Register
Fewer affordable
Homes today
than in 1997
Average age first time
buyers now 37 and
rising!
90’
Cambridge
Northampton
Bedford
60’
Milton
Keynes
Harlow
Colchester
Luton
Chelmsford
St Albans
Oxon
Swindon
Luton
Reading
Woking
Basingstoke
Ebbsfleet
Croydon
Guildford
Winchester
Gillingham Ramsgate
Ram
Gillingham
Margate
AshfordEbbsfleet
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Dover
Sevenoaks
Ashford
Tonbridge
Tunbridge Wells
Dover
Folkestone
S’ton
Folkestone
Brighton
Eastbourne
Hastings
New Kids on the Block!
“If you want people to feel connected to their
communities. Proud of their communities. Then you
give people a real say over what happens in their
communities. And the power to make a difference.”
Rt. Hon Eric Pickles, MP
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iii. Localism
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Crossroads…
Our Vision
•We want to see local housing and planning authorities in Kent and
Medway deciding their own housing numbers, based on local people’s
need and ambitions for growth.
•We want to see our coastal and urban communities revitalised and our
rural areas thrive and prosper.
•We want to see homes provided that meet the needs and aspirations of
all Kent and Medway residents.
•We want all people in Kent and Medway to have the opportunity to
choose to live in a high quality home, in the place they want to live.
•By creating balanced communities, we will support people, whatever their
needs, to fulfil their potential and live the best life they can.
•By using innovative and flexible approaches to finance and regulation we
will encourage managed growth that makes a lasting and positive impact.
•By listening to what people want, we will provide homes and communities
that they can be proud to live in.
Theme 1 – Managed Growth and Infrastructure
Our Ambition: The continued delivery of key infrastructure to support
managed growth and housing delivery across the County.
Theme 2 – Place-making and Regeneration
Our Ambition: The continued regeneration of our disadvantaged
neighbourhoods to bring them in line with more affluent parts of the County.
Theme 3 - Affordability and Choice
Our Ambition: The provision of choice and affordability in housing for the
citizens of Kent and Medway, including rural communities, which meets their
needs and aspirations.
Theme 4 - Estate Renewal
Our Ambition: The managed improvement and retrofit of existing homes to
make them fit for now and the future.
Theme 5 - Housing Need
Our Ambition: To support vulnerable people in housing need to fulfil their
potential and live a high quality life through the provision of excellent housing
and support services.
Housing and Planning Futures
Proposed Model
Strategic picture for Kent and Medway formed around four activity blocks:
LDF’s and
Local
Housing
Strategies
Local
Investment
Plans
Kent and
Medway
Housing
Strategy
Housing
and
Planning
Futures
…enabling the components to be a catalyst for investor confidence
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Our key asks of government are:
1. Support our proposals to introduce innovative forms of
infrastructure financing, in particular Tax Increment Financing, to get
growth moving again.
2. Whilst recognising that the public financial climate will be difficult,
continue to make funding available to finance regeneration and
economic growth.
3. Incentivise public agencies to make public sector land available for
development purposes, providing local authorities with the flexibility
to share more of the risk in order to reap better rewards upon
completion.
4. Support people’s aspirations for home ownership by offering
variants on shared ownership models and finding new ways of
financing a wider range of innovative mortgage products.
Our key asks of government are:
5. Encourage investors to invest in the private rented sector in the
same way they currently do for other property asset classes.
6. Give local authorities more powers to be able to use local
products that respond to local requirements, flex rents and make
greater use of intermediate tenures.
7. Support the funding of retrofit and the development of wider
solutions to improve existing homes.
8. Consider the use of flexible local tariff arrangements as part of
the review of Community Infrastructure Levy.
Strategic
Priorities
•A number of the priorities in the Strategy are already being
progressed and will continue to be during the consultation period.
•These include the development of the Rural Housing Protocol and
research into the future housing needs of older adults.
•JPPB and KHG have a number of work streams with direct links to
priorities described in the emerging Housing Strategy including
Learning Disability, Mental Health and Young People.
Kent Housing Group
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