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Medway Delivering Affordable Extra care Accommodation Russell Drury Affordable Housing Development & Investment Manager Understanding Need - Institute of Public Care appointed to deliver extra care needs analysis - Includes demographic projections - looks at all accommodation options for older people ranging from staying in own home, sheltered housing, residential care etc. - Discussion with Adult Social Care to determine level of funding available for care element of extra care provision. Understanding existing housing offer Location Map of existing supported housing Innovative Approach? • No PFI • number of large regeneration sites • HCA funding available for extra care • ASC willing to provide revenue support for care provision Strategy • Create link between Regeneration, Strategic Housing & Adult Social Care agendas • Deliver up to 350 affordable extra care units before reviewing needs • Educate planning & allocations on extra care • Mix of tenants in terms of care requirement (1/3 low, 1/3 medium, 1/3 high). Aim to keep schemes vibrant • Seek geographical split on provision • Aim not deliver more than one scheme per year Next Steps • Identify sites (250 units +) • Development Briefs • Negotiate S106 agreements – – – – Care Service Improvement Partnership (Factsheet No. 6 – Design Principles for Extra Care. Housing our Ageing Population: Panel for Innovation (HAPPI) report Mix of 1 & 2 bed units Tenure split of units • Communicate strategy to partners – Elected members, HA’s, HCA, ASC, Medway Strategic Housing Board • Secure HCA funding – NAHP • Wait for sites to come forward Prospect Place, Gillingham • • • • • 60 unit (social rented) scheme delivered April 2012 Developer = Berkeley First Registered Provider = Housing21 Scheme is just part of the affordable housing requirement on a 800 + unit site. HCA funding £5.8 million (includes 43 shared ownership apartments) Rochester Riverside • Launch date 15th March 2013 • 41 unit scheme (social rented) • Hyde HA • HCA funding £4.6 million Liberty Park, Wainscott • 62 units scheme (social rented) • West Kent HA • Crest • £4.76 million HCA funding • Due for completion Sept 2013 Moving forward • Requirement already in place for a further 4 schemes via either development briefs and / or S106 agreements • Provision of free land via S106 agreements + additional developer contribution? • Mixed tenure extra care scheme (private, shared equity & rented) to create cross subsidy. • Alternative funding sources HCA / DoH - Care & Support Specialised Housing Fund? Pooling ‘off-site’ s106 contributions Questions ?