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Building New, Affordable, Sustainable Social
Housing for the Future
SCALA
Jane Briginshaw
October 2012
Contents
Current delivery context
HCA purpose and vision
Building homes for the long
term
Design research and delivery
Current delivery context
Limited public funding
HCA investment is focused on 4 key areas:
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Affordable housing
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Renewal of existing social housing stock
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Land and regeneration
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Economic Assets Programme
Focus on growth
The HCA role
We are the people who help get things done…
Working with people and places to enable
them to deliver homes, economic growth and
jobs
Delivering programmes of investment
Making best use of our land and that of
government/ other public bodies
Undertaking robust economic regulation of
social housing providers
HCA Purpose: to contribute to economic growth by helping communities to realise their
aspirations for prosperity and to deliver quality housing that people can afford
The Challenge: Building Homes
for the long term
2011-15 Affordable Homes Programme
The HCA’s existing Design and Quality Standards
http://www.homesandcommunities.co.uk/ourwork/d
esign-and-sustainability-standards are to be used
for the setting Code for Sustainable Homes level 3
as the minimum standard on all grant funded
schemes.
Land disposals and Economic assets
New disposals are set at local authority standards
Local Authorities developing their own standards
Supported by HCA
September announcements
First Buy, Empty Homes, Guarantees, Section 106
pilots
The current context
National government context
• Government-led, high profile review to be
announced today to report Spring 2012
‘a fundamental and urgent review led by
Government working with interested parties
to rationalise these standards. This review
will result in a clear plan of action by next
spring’ (September 2012)’
• Standards review group
• Contestable Policymaking Challenge
Panel
The current context
National government context
• The new Growth and Infrastructure Bill to
‘help the country compete on the global
stage by setting out a comprehensive series
of practical reforms to reduce confusing and
overlapping red tape’ October 18th
• ‘Getting building going on stalled housing
sites, by allowing the reconsideration of
economically unviable 'Section 106'
agreements. This could release some of the
75,000 affordable and private homes currently
stalled. Unrealistic conditions currently mean
no development, no regeneration and no
community benefits’
Evidence from our customers
2008-11 NAHP
Evidence published at
http://www.homesandcommunities.co.uk
/quality-counts
We reviewed 520 schemes and
interviewed 973 residents
Residents were overwhelmingly
positive. The vast majority (93%) when
asked “Overall, how satisfied are you
with your home” gave a rating of four or
five.
In answer to “Do you like your home and
do you feel comfortable there” the
average score was 4.59
“We love it”
“It’s like heaven”
“Beautiful house, perfect”
“Comfortable and secure”
“Couldn’t be happier”
Design Research and Delivery
Evidence from our customers
Long term programmes- learning
the lessons
In depth technical research and
sharing good practice
Learning the Lessons
Design for Manufacture began in 2005,
several phases with same brief
allowed lessons to be learned and
improvements made
Detailed evaluations carried out post
occupation to assess technical
performance and what residents
thought
Current phase on site, adapts to
economic climate. High quality-space
and CSH 4 affordable, very popular
The Carbon Challenge
Learning from large scale
delivery of high performance
homes CSH3
Supporting government to
understand challenges
involved in delivery of 2016
zero carbon standard at
higher Code levels
Focus on detailed aspects
such as fabric first to build
industry capacity
Conclusions
HCA’s work with local partners key to
delivering Government’s objectives on
localism, growth and regulation
Through our investment we can influence
design and sustainability and help spread
good practice
homesandcommunities.co.uk
/HCA_UK
/homes-&-communities-agency