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Meeting Local Needs in Practice:
Carnarvon Place, Newbury
Sovereign Housing Trust
 Housing for over 55s
 85 x 1 & 2 beds
 No care & support provided on site
– It is provided on a domiciliary basis
 Replaces 3 poor quality sheltered
housing schemes (these sites reused for
general needs housing, for rent and sale)
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Homes and Communities Award
2010 – Winner Housing for an
Ageing Population
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Mill Rise, Newcastle-under-Lyme
 Aspire HA
 Extra Care housing
60 x 1&2 bed flats for rent & S/O
 Primary Care Centre
3 GPs, pharmacy + community
- health facilities
- physiotherapy gym, shared with
scheme residents
 Outward looking, connected to
community
 Major regeneration & housing
market renewal area
 8 partners, 6 funders: HCA, LIFT,
Aspire HA, Staffs CC, Newcastle
-under-Lyme BC, RENEW N
Staffs
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Meeting Local Needs in Practice:
Bentinck Road, Nottingham
 12 self-contained
flats older
homeless and
vulnerable people
 Framework HA
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Housing Design Awards – Winner HAPPI Category
 Heald Farm Court, Newton-leWillows
 Helena Partnerships
 DK-architects
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Christopher Boone’s Almshouses,
Lewisham
Internal Courtyard and Gallery/deck access
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Christopher Boone’s Almshouses
Affordable Retirement Housing
1 bedroom – Area 62m2
2 bedroom – Area 82m2
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Christopher Boone’s Almshouses
Balconies and/or Winter Gardens
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Housing Design Awards – Winner HAPPI Category
Kidbrooke Extra Care, Greenwich
 PRP architects
 Berkeley Urban Renaissance
 300 Extra Care Flats
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Core & cluster
Less institutional
Mainly 2 bed dual aspect flats
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Kidbrooke Extra Care, Greenwich
 Large scale &
community
interface
justify
communal
facilities
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Neptuna, Malmo, Sweden
The importance of location
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James Berrington
Senior Strategy Manager
[email protected]
020 7874 598
www.homesandcommunities.co.uk
0300 1234 500
www.homesandcommunities.co.uk/vulnerable_people
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