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Keeping the Derbyshire Dales clean, safe, healthy & beautiful

Cllr Lewis Rose OBE

Derbyshire Dales DC


Why build new homes?

• Derbyshire Dales house price to income ratio is 14:1, the second worst in the country

• New Homes Bonus• Replace homes lost through RTB• Offer alternatives to tenants

effected by Welfare Reform


Track record of Delivery

• Since LSVT in 2002 we have enabled 1000 affordable homes across the Derbyshire Dales

• Market Town, infill and rural exceptions

• Recognised through Awards and funding allocations for our approach

• LA Land and funding of £2m


DDDC achievements

• Shortlisted Beacon Status Affordable Housing 2006

• Housing Heroes Award 2010 Development Team of the Year

• Shortlisted UK Housing Awards Housing Development 2011

• Shortlisted MJ Awards Customer Engagement 2011

• Shortlisted UK Housing Awards 2012 Debt Advice

• Shortlisted Housing Heroes Award 2012 Development Team of the Year


Making your authority easy to invest in

• Housing Associations want to add stock

• Developers need to build• A variety of funding opportunities

are promoted by the HCA• Land owners and entrepreneurs are

responding to development opportunities


Local Authority support

• Potential financial options– Right to Buy receipts – Section 106 income – 2nd homes council tax– New homes bonus– DCLG Homelessness grant– Capital receipts


Local Authority Support

• Pre application support• Concept statements for some sites• Rural Housing Enabler central to

community engagement • Corporate approach to delivery,

Housing, Planning, Legal, Estates, Highways, Finance, Environmental Health, Car Parks


Inspiring confidence

• Successful programmes take time and effort from a variety of partners

• The local authority role is central;– Identify need through your Housing

Teams– Accessible Planning Teams to give advice

and support– Assist with resources where possible– Leadership


Why Leadership is important?

• Identifying priorities – officers and partner agencies need direction in where to focus resources

• Planning Committee….. affordable housing schemes can be 2 or 3 years in the pipeline, often at significant cost to developers

• Approvals generate confidence, developers and the HCA need to know your authority is a safe bet


Wider benefits

• We know from independent research:– Happy residents! Even the majority of

objectors come round in the end– Schools, local shops and services– Employment and apprenticeships– New Homes Bonus– Local trades and materials


Going forward

• Positioning your authority to make the best possible bid for the resources available whether HCA, Housing Association or developer

• Exceptions site policies, cross subsidy(?), S106 contributions

• Supporting the role of Rural Housing Enablers


Derbyshire Dales DC

• 118 homes completed in 2012/13• 70 homes to complete in 2013/14• Bid to HCA of 164 homes with LA

funding of £832,000 financed from RTB receipts, S106 income and 2nd homes council tax

• Total package of investment £16m


If a council as small as the Derbyshire Dales can build new homes in one of the most protected environments in

the East Midlands….

So can most other authorities

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