Growth: The View from the

Housing Association Sector

David Bogle, Chief Executive

Hightown Housing Association

Hertfordshire Housing

Figures Average House Price £441,791

Average Monthly Rent (Private) £1,107

Average Earnings pa £33,847

House Prices to Incomes 13:01

Income Required for 80% Mortgage £101,000

Households in Temporary Accom. 1,222

Rough Sleepers 490

LA Social Housing Dwellings 32,360

HA Social Housing Dwellings 54,140

Total Dwellings 487,680

Nos. on Housing Waiting Lists 24,090

Total Social Housing Lettings Per

Annum

3030

Hertfordshire – a sustainable community

• Working and non- working households

• Young people and older people

• Maintaining public services

• Affordable homes (incl. for our children)

• Less travel to work? More time for

parenting/supporting elders

• Supporting the disabled and vulnerable

• Using growth to maintain/promote a balanced

community

Rossway Drive, Bushey • 1 hectare site located in the Greenbelt approximately 1 mile from Bushey town

centre. Partly previously developed including a print workshop & car garage.

• New Barratt development of 82 units completed immediately to the north with

the M1 motorway just beyond.

• Full Planning Consent to demolish existing buildings and develop 55 one, two

and three bedroom properties comprising 32 rent and 23 shared ownership

units, with 66 car spaces and a central open space.

• Construction to commence in April 2019.

Halsey House, Watford • Former Town & Country Club, located in Watford Town Centre off

Rosslyn Road.

• Full Planning Consent to demolish existing building and construct 39

one & two bedroom flats (comprising 16 shared ownership and 23

rent) with 12 car spaces.

• Construction to commence in Summer 2019.

Viking House, Hemel Hempstead • Previously a large office block located off Swallowdale Lane with Permitted

Development Rights to convert/extend to create 64 1 & 2 bed flats.

• Planning Permission obtained for 87 one and two bedroom apartments

built across four blocks (40 for intermediate rent and 47 for affordable rent),

1:1 parking and a central landscaped area.

• Funding provided from Homes England & Dacorum Borough Council.

• Construction underway, with completion in December 2019.

Maylands Plaza

• Mixed Development on Maylands Business Park, Hemel Hempstead.

• 130 Flats for affordable and intermediate rent

• 10 Shops and a Community Church

Housing Associations

• Hightown, Aldwyck, Watford Community, Settle,

Thrive, B3Living, Origin

• Social enterprises/charities

• Here for the long term

• Investors

• Employers

• Accountable

• Nice people but businesses

Growth

• LEP has been very good – unifying/focussed

• Growth along transport corridors

• More density in towns

• Not all green belt sacrosanct

• Defend S.106 for affordable housing

• Support and encourage housing association

own developments

• Working together we can do it!