Strong communities with homes and jobs

Working in partnership with the Black Country to support housing

and economic growth Karl Tupling

Executive Director MidlandsHomes and Communities Agency (HCA)

Strong communities with homes and jobs

Emerging picture post spend review• Government housing ambitions

• Build 1 million homes over the Parliament• 275,000 affordable homes• Land to deliver 160,000 homes

•  Focus on home ownership• Double number of first time buyers• Extend Right to Buy to 1.3million

further households• Continue funding Help to Buy to 2020-21

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Affordable housing

• Affordable housing doubled to £8bn from 2018-19

• 400,000 affordable homes by 2020-21• 200,000 Starter Homes, with £2.3bn fund

to support delivery of 60,000 of these• 135,000 Help to Buy shared ownership• 10,000 Rent to Buy • 8,000 homes for vulnerable/older people

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HCA tools • Accelerate housing supply & build more homes

• Reforms to planning system• Release public sector land with 160,000 homes capacity• Unused commercial land re-designated for Starter Homes• 2016-21 Affordable Homes Programme• £3bn housing development funds to

support future housing supply• £2.3bn for housing infrastructure• £700m programme at named sites to

deliver 60,000 homes

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Focus on housing continues

• Direct commissioning to fast track building affordable homes on publicly owned land

• £1.2bn to build 30,000 Starter Homes on brownfield land in next 5 years

• Confirmation of Housing Zone funding

MAKING IT HAPPEN IN THE BLACK COUNTRY

Ridgeway Road, Stoke on Trent

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HCA investment in the Black Country

• 2011-16 Affordable Housing Programme helped to build nearly 6,100 homes in the Black Country with an investment of £165m

• Over 75,000 sqm employment floorspace created and over £17m spend on land programmes 2011-16

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Going forwards – HCA’s land role• Key land role in bringing forward residential

development on HCA land • Dispose of public sector land for

government departments• Add value to surplus sites with development

potential • Speeding up sale to help increase housing supply  

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Shared ownership

• Following Spending Review current Affordable Homes Programme open principally for shared ownership  

• More details of 2016-21 Programme to follow

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Starter Homes• Enabling house building on brownfield sites

• Clearance, remediation, demolition and site investigations• Support through Housing & Planning Bill reforms• First wave of Starter Homes

• £36m pilot fund to be used by March• £28m of this being used to acquire and

de-risk brownfield sites • Remaining £8m for local authorities• Includes 6 Midlands LAs

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Continued commitment to the Black Country

• Work with BC partners to deliver priority sites

• Alignment of available and future HCA programmes

• Access to HCA consultancy panels and Developer Partner Panel

QUESTIONS

Ridgeway Road, Stoke on TrentLightmoor Village, Telford