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Spotlight Session
Delivering more for and with
local rural communities
Spotlight Session:
Delivering more for and with local rural communities
Chair: Matt Dodd, Rural and Communities Manager, HCA
Andy Dean, Housing Officer, Rural Services Network
John Lefever, Regional Head of Development, Hastoe Group
Julie Monk, Head of Environmental Services, Eden DC
Sarah Davis, Senior Policy and Practice Officer, CIH
Rural Spotlight: delivering more for
and with rural communities
Andy Dean
Rural Services Network
CIH – RSN Partnership
Rural focus
2012 survey
‘How to’ guide
APPG
E bulletin
How to work effectively with rural communities
Case studies
Key success factors
What happens when you get it right
Spotlight Session
Delivering more for and with
local rural communities
Presentation
By
John Lefever
Rural Spotlight: delivering more for and
with rural communities
Principles that Shape Hastoe’s
engagement with communities
• Rural specialist – addresses local
housing need.
• Long term neighbour
• Need to be different
• Sustainable communities – People
& Businesses
Engagement
• Consultation meetings.
• Work with Parish councils
• Get design right
• Strong management
• Understand the environment (gas)
• Sustainability
Use of environmental measures to
engage and influence communities
• Passivhaus - two completed
certified schemes, 4 more
schemes on site.
• Straw bale scheme
• Hastoe schemes code 4
• Southend code 5
• Largest RP installer of Ground
source heat pumps in England
Spotlight Session
Delivering more for and with
local rural communities
Alston Appleby Kirkby Stephen Penrith
www.eden.gov.uk
Rural spotlight: delivering more for
and with rural communities
Julie Monk
Head of Environmental Services
Eden District Council
Delivering High Quality Affordable Housing
Delivering High Quality Affordable Housing
830 square miles
52,000 population – Sparsity!
72 Parishes + Penrith
Small council -150 staff, £5.6m net revenue
Increasing but ageing population
Average house prices 7.6 x household income
Core strategy adopted 2010, Housing priority
History of community engagement
Community Rights
Neighbourhood Planning
Neighbourhood Planning
Aims of the Plan
EDC Response
Duty to support
Community/Parish led, not local authority led
EDC’s role is to help, ensure smooth transition through
examination and on to adoption
‘General conformity’ – can go beyond our planning policy and
takes precedence
Role at this stage is advising on any areas may make it difficult
for the Inspector to recommend it goes on to referendum
Next steps / To think about ....
More Neighbourhood Planning on its way– meet the challenge
Localism brings challenges as well as opportunities:
CIL v Section106
Community Right to Bid v need for more housing
Creative thinking to meet the funding ‘gap’ - LEP funding?
How to create the pre-development appetite - Bottom up approach to housing need, sites and design
£££s using council funds in new ways – build to rent, council land, NHB, etc.
Community plan and needs survey
Volunteer steering group
CLT Officer support
£2,500 CLT Fund start-up grant
Professional project management skills within the
community (not essential)
£300,000 CLT Fund bridging loan to acquire site
Made possible by
£30,000 CLT Fund loan to get to planning
£30,000 EDC loan / grant to get to planning
£55,000 Homes & Communities Agency (HCA) housing grant per affordable home
previous government grant levels
£1.5m Charity Bank loan
Sale of self build plots – cross subsidy
Eden HA housing management
Spotlight Session
Delivering more for and with
local rural communities
Sarah Davis
Senior Policy and Practice
Officer, CIH
Spotlight Session
Delivering more for and with
local rural communities
Savills is delighted to be a sponsor at the
CIH Conference & Exhibition 2013
Visit us at Stand D14 www.savills.co.uk/housingconsultancy
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Delivering housing with care and
support for older people
11-12 September 2013, Solihull Book your place:
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If you found this session useful,
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How do we get to 250,000
homes per year? Session III Thursday 1.30-2.45 Charter 4
John Prescott in interview
with Allegra Stratton
followed by Conference
Round Up
Thursday 3.00-4.15 Exchange Auditorium
Conference summary -
where next for housing? Thursday 2.15 The Hub
