Thriving communities, affordable homes

The Homes & Communities Agency

Driving Delivery Through Place: Crafting sustainable neighbourhoods

David Warburton

Head of Area

27 November 2009

Thriving communities, affordable homes

The Homes and Communities Agency

the national housing and regeneration Agency;

£5 billion annual budget across the English Regions;

homes and communities; a new agency with new ways of

working and with a new place based, rather than project based, product;

focus on outcomes for people and communities, and not just physical outputs.

Thriving communities, affordable homes

Our ‘product’

Mixed Communities

Integrated mixed use, mixed tenure/income walkable neighbourhoods

Thriving communities, affordable homes

And New Challenges – Responding to Climate Change….

Hanham Hall, South Gloucestershire

England’s first large-scale zero carbon Code for Sustainable Homes Level 6 community, with Barratt Homes;

195 homes and 2,000m² employment and mixed use space.

Thriving communities, affordable homes

A new business model: the Single Conversation, a place-based investment process

A new investment planning process to facilitate a Place Based approach to delivering our business;

Land, housing, infrastructure, regeneration, employment, training, health, education..

In mixed use, mixed income neighbourhoods that people choose to live and work in, and can afford to live in.

Thriving communities, affordable homes

What’s different in housing and regeneration investment?

HCA as one of the main investors will now focus on ‘place’ - on place based priorities and priority themes delivered through the Single Conversation and Local Investment Plans;

A move away from Continuous Market Engagement (first past the post) to Commissioning within priority places;

New partnerships with local authorities, the private sector, and housing associations;

New business products – increased focus on investment rather than grant, to match this new business process;

And seeks a new form of engagement with local partners based around creating new and regenerated places, and the contribution HCA investment in housing and affordable housing, infrastructure, land and regeneration can make.