Medway Delivering Affordable Extra care Accommodation Russell Drury Affordable Housing Development & Investment Manager
Jan 02, 2016
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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Questions