Medway

Medway

Delivering Affordable Extra care Accommodation

Russell DruryAffordable Housing Development & Investment Manager

Understanding Need

- Institute of Public Care appointed to deliver extra care needs analysis

- Includes demographic projections

- looks at all accommodation options for older people ranging from staying in own home, sheltered housing, residential care etc.

- Discussion with Adult Social Care to determine level of funding available for care element of extra care provision.

Understanding existing housing offer

Location Map of existing supported housing

• No PFI • number of large

regeneration sites• HCA funding available for

extra care• ASC willing to provide

revenue support for care provision

Innovative Approach?

• Create link between Regeneration, Strategic Housing & Adult Social Care agendas

• Deliver up to 350 affordable extra care units before reviewing needs

• Educate planning & allocations on extra care• Mix of tenants in terms of care requirement

(1/3 low, 1/3 medium, 1/3 high). Aim to keep schemes vibrant

• Seek geographical split on provision • Aim not deliver more than one scheme per

year

Strategy

• Identify sites (250 units +)• Development Briefs• Negotiate S106 agreements

– Care Service Improvement Partnership (Factsheet No. 6 – Design Principles for Extra Care.

– Housing our Ageing Population: Panel for Innovation (HAPPI) report – Mix of 1 & 2 bed units– Tenure split of units

• Communicate strategy to partners – Elected members, HA’s, HCA, ASC, Medway Strategic Housing

Board

• Secure HCA funding – NAHP • Wait for sites to come forward

Next Steps

• 60 unit (social rented) scheme delivered April 2012• Developer = Berkeley First• Registered Provider = Housing21• Scheme is just part of the affordable housing requirement

on a 800 + unit site. • HCA funding £5.8 million (includes 43 shared ownership

apartments)

Prospect Place, Gillingham

Rochester Riverside

• Launch date 15th March 2013

• 41 unit scheme (social rented)

• Hyde HA

• HCA funding £4.6 million

Liberty Park, Wainscott

• 62 units scheme (social rented)

• West Kent HA

• Crest

• £4.76 million HCA funding

• Due for completion Sept 2013

• Requirement already in place for a further 4 schemes via either development briefs and / or S106 agreements

• Provision of free land via S106 agreements + additional developer contribution?

• Mixed tenure extra care scheme (private, shared equity & rented) to create cross subsidy.

• Alternative funding sources

HCA / DoH - Care & Support Specialised Housing Fund?

Pooling ‘off-site’ s106 contributions

Moving forward

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