Forum for the Built Environment –

24th May 2012

Naz Parkar – Head of Area for Leeds City Region and North

Yorkshire

HCA Purpose HCA’s purpose from government:

“The purpose of the HCA is to contribute to economic growth by helping communities to realise their

aspirations for prosperity and to deliver quality housing that people can afford.”

What we do

Housing Supply

Locally Driven

Public Land & Assets

Economic Growth

Skilled and Innovative

Robust and

Transparent Regulation

What have we done?

2011/12 year end delivery

Development and disposal strategy First Buy Programme Affordable Housing

Get Britain Building

Get Britain Building 24 projects

shortlisted subject to contract

delivering 542 homes with

investment of £20m

Get Britain Building

Development Developer Local Authority

Worth Park Riverside Skipton Properties Limited Bradford

Woodland Heights Skipton Properties Limited Bradford

New Bolton Woods Canal Road Urban Village Limited Bradford

Marmaville Bovis Homes Kirklees

Moorfield Road Armley Chaertford Developments Leeds

Micklethwaite Lane Bingley Chaertford Developments Bradford

Melbourne Mill Seddon Group Limited Calderdale

Wortley Green Family Housing Wortley Green Limited Leeds

Sykes Ings Mill Earlsheaton D. Noble Ltd Kirklees

Barley Hill Road Garforth Chaertford Developments Leeds

The Park Cookridge Phase 2 Chartford Arthington Ltd Leeds

Navigation Point Merlion Capital Housing Limited Wakefield

Affordable Homes – the total programme 2011-15

Programme 2011-15 2012-15

NEYTH West Yorkshire

Existing commitments £115.3m £16.6m

New Affordable Homes Programme £m

£181.6m £41.8m

Total £296.9m £58.4m +

Existing commitments 5,811 1,022

New AHP Homes 8,135 2,105

Total Homes 13,946 3,127

% national resources (£’s) 10.2%

Other programmes provide an opportunity for good quality affordable housing

Empty Homes– Within government’s Housing Strategy

– £100m funding over 2011/15

Decent Homes– To Council and Registered Providers stock

– Housing Strategy – stock options

Community led initiatives – Community Right to Build, Custom Build and AHP

Right to Buy – 1:1 replacement

Land Disposal and Development Strategy

Leeds – Wharfedale Hospital- Seacroft Hospital- Allerton Bywater- Tower Works- Leodis- Former BSM

Bradford - Former Odeon- Old Police Station- Furniture City

Wakefield – Frickley - Fryston - Normanton

Calderdale – Hopwood Triangle - Union Street

Kirklees - St Peters Buildings

What we have done in West Yorkshire? 2008/11

£211m invested in 4,443 homes and regeneration of

places by creating 82,000m2 of employment floorspace and reclaimed 170ha of brownfield

land

£211m invested in 4,443 homes and regeneration of places by creating 82,000m2 of employment floorspace and reclaimed 170ha of brownfield land

What have we done in West Yorkshire?

Funded the first Code 6 homes in Wakefield and Bradford

Supported a revised delivery in EASEL, Leeds

Remediated former colliery sites in Frickley and Fryston and developed country parks

Supported the development of RGF bids to address renewal in Girnhill

Kickstarted stalled sites Supported building of new

council housing

New Affordable Housing Supply

+ a % share of the

indicative supplyin LCR

Major Registered Provider Partners working in the West Yorkshire Area - £50m plus to deliver over 3,000 homes

The HCA’s in Partnership - enabling role in West Yorkshire

Supporting Registered Providers to deliver new affordable housing

Continuing to invest in the existing stock as part of the empty homes programme

Exploiting new funding opportunities – EH, Community Right to Build, Custom Build, Equity Investments

Joint approach to develop a strategy to Bradford city centre

Working with Leeds and Kirklees on site options appraisals

PRSI in the LCR – esp Leeds and Bradford

Goitside

The strategy aims to help those who: Aspire to own their own home; Want to see a fair and effective system of social housing; and Rent a home privately.

The Strategy is about Getting the market moving again Stimulating the economy Not controlling things from the centre Promoting social mobility Incentives rather than regulation Reform and fairness Quality and fit with local need

The Future – The Housing Strategy

‘INCREASING SUPPLY’ Mortgage indemnity Growing Places Fund Get Britain Building

(Stalled sites) Public Land Land auctions Locally planned large-scale

development Custom Build (Self-build) Community-led NPPF

Reinvigorated Right to Buy Stock transfer

Private Rented Sector Empty Homes

‘SOCIAL AND AFFORDABLE HOUSING REFORM’

OTHER

Key measures