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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:
• Affordable housing
• Renewal of existing social housing stock
• Land and regeneration
• Economic Assets Programme
Focus on growth
The HCA roleWe 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 term2011-15 Affordable Homes Programme The HCA’s existing Design and Quality Standards
http://www.homesandcommunities.co.uk/ourwork/design-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 customers2008-11 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