Delivering Quality Places Louise Wyman Area Manager November 2011

Contents

§  Current delivery context at the HCA

§  Design at the HCA

§  Principles of making great places

§  Localism: Delivering for local communities

Current delivery context §  Limited public funding §  Investment and Enabling §  HCA investment is focused on 4

key areas: •  Affordable housing •  Renewal of existing social

housing stock •  Land and regeneration •  Economic Assets Programme

§  Locally driven growth

Our role in land HCA Land §  Existing P&R commitments §  Accelerated disposal sites

Other government land §  Technical support to government

departments - Health, Defra, Defence, Transport

Economic Assets Programme §  52 coalfield assets §  Over 300 further sites, value of

£300m §  Local stewardship arrangements

HCA’s investment role Affordable Homes Programme 2011-15

§  £4.5bn (£2.3bn existing commitments)

§  146 RP’s selected §  103 offers agreed §  43 contracts signed §  FirstBuy support for c.10,000

First Time Buyers

“Helping deliver the Government’s ambition to build up to 170,000 new high quality affordable homes by 2015”

Design and Delivery at the HCA

§  The HCA’s existing Design and Quality Standards 2007 retained for the 2011- 15 Affordable Homes Programme

§  Code for Sustainable

Homes level 3 as a minimum standard on all grant funded schemes

Watermanʼs Place, Leeds#

Next steps for design in the AHP

Quality audit, feedback from partners and site visits Learning from evidence: §  external design and open

space could be improved §  Building for Life useful

assessment tool

AHP structure supports early stage design work with RP partners

Award-winning low carbon development#Cross Street South, Wolverhampton#

Putting communities in charge

§  AHP scope for community-led projects and access to funding

§  Enabling and sign-posting:

–  Improving access to information and expertise

–  HCA community-led champions

–  Working with LAs and RPs to explore community-led opportunities and share best-practice

Creating Quality Places The Housing and Regeneration Act 2008 HCA’s statutory objects to:

§  improve the supply and quality of housing in England §  secure the regeneration or development of land or

infrastructure in England §  support in other ways the creation, regeneration or

development of communities in England or their continued well-being

§  contribute to the achievement of sustainable development and good design in England, with a view to meeting the needs of people living in England.

Creating Quality Places

Creating Quality Places

Principles of Place Making

1. Places for people#

Corn Exchange, Leeds#Retail Arcades, Leeds#

2. Enrich the existing#

Principles of Place Making

Enrich the existing#

Shoe factory, Northampton# Upton, Northampton#

Principles of Place Making

Grey Street, Newcastle#

Quayside, Newcastle#

3. Make the Connections#

Principles of Place Making

More London to Tower Bridge# Millennium Bridge to St. Pauls#

Make the Connections#

Principles of Place Making

Round Foundry Leeds#

4. Mix use and form#

Principles of Place Making

5. Work with the Landscape#

Principles of Place Making

Work with the Landscape#

Principles of Place Making

6. Manage the investment#

Principles of Place Making

7. Design for Change#

Principles of Place Making

High Line, New York# Albert Dock, Liverpool#

Design for Change#

Principles of Place Making

HCA in the Midlands

Green Street, The Meadows, Nottingham

§  Blueprint scheme §  Built by Lovell §  Marsh Grochowski

Architects

HCA in the Midlands

§  38 3&4 bed homes §  Code level 4 §  BfL Gold §  Bold placemaking §  Sustainable design

Green Street, The Meadows, Nottingham

HCA in the Midlands §  Upton, Northampton

§  1,380 new homes all EcoHomes ‘Excellent’

§  6 homes at Site D1 achieving Code Level 6

§  School, playing fields, SUDS

HCA in the Midlands §  Attwood Green, Birmingham

Conclusions §  HCA’s work with local partners key

to delivering Government’s objectives on localism and growth

§  We help LA’s deliver their communities’ local priorities

§  Significant current opportunities –  Affordable homes programme –  Community led development –  Disposal sites –  Developing assets

§  Commitment to quality places

Crocodile Works, Birmingham

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