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HACT CONFERENCE
JANUARY 2015housing association and CLT partnerships
Kevin Hartnett
Business Development Director
Hastoe Housing
Today
1. Quick introduction to Hastoe
2. Hastoe’s work with CLTs to date
3. Our experience
4. Conclusion
Hastoe vision
Sustainable homes and
sustainable communitiesInnovation
Rural
communities
Environmental
sustainability
Hastoe’s normal community led process
• Parish council asks for assistance
• Hastoe arranges housing needs assessment
• Hastoe + PC + planners walkabout to identify site
• Hastoe prepares initial design for preferred site
• Hastoe contacts landowner
• Iterative process of community engagement and consultations,
re-design, landowner negotiations
• Planning application and construction
• Scheme opening
• So....CLTs are natural partners for us
CLT partners to date
• Symene CLT - West Dorset
• Marshwood CLT – West Dorset
• Upper Culme CLT – Mid Devon
• Upton Pyne CLT – East Devon
• Queen Camel CLT – South Somerset
• Cambs CLTs – Soham and more
What does an RP bring?
• Development expertise
• Management experience
• Quality and value for money
construction
• High design standards
• Access to funding – private and HCA
• Community led ethos
What’s in it for me?
• Core business
• Builds programme
• Community engagement
• High quality
• Real partnership
• Our ethos and our business
Some options
• Development agent – short term
interest, no management, funding
issues for CLT
• Hastoe freehold – goes against
principles
• Joint ownership – scheme size
• Joint management – size again
Framework• Legal interest in land
• 125 year lease (grant conditions and
borrowing)
• Break clause issues
• Freehold with CLT
• Option agreement with Hastoe
• CLT’s homes, not Hastoe’s
Some lessons• Early stages – establish credibility and trust
....motives
• Listen – both ways
• Design process
• Management options
• Sales and lettings
• Learn to let go
• CLT members the focus locally
Some practicals• Legal partnership agreements
• Longer lead in time
• More consultation time on design and detail
• Funded by the LA, the HCA and others
• Market sale homes
• Rent levels
• Most CLT projects are stand alone, high
quality and require higher levels of grant
subsidy
Questions and challenges
• Future of capital grant
• Market sale
• Mortgage finance
• Welfare Reform
• Rural fuel poverty
• Forming CLT and developing a
scheme are different things