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
Robust
and
Transparent
Regulation
Locally Driven
Economic Growth
Skilled and Innovative
Public Land & Assets
What have we done?
2011/12 year end
delivery
Development and
disposal strategy
Get Britain Building
First Buy Programme
Affordable Housing
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
– 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
Leeds
What we have done in West Yorkshire?
2008/11
£211m
£211m
invested
invested
in 4,443
in 4,443
homes
homes
and regeneration
and regeneration
of
placesofbyplaces
creating
by 82,000m2
creating
of employment
82,000m2
floorspace
of
and
reclaimed
employment
170ha of floorspace
brownfield
and reclaimed
land
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
Major
Registered
Provider
Partners
working in the
West Yorkshire
Area - £50m
plus to deliver
over 3,000
homes
+ a % share of
the
indicative supply
in LCR
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 Future – The Housing Strategy
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
Key measures
‘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
‘SOCIAL AND AFFORDABLE
HOUSING REFORM’
 Reinvigorated Right to Buy
 Stock transfer
OTHER
 Private Rented Sector
 Empty Homes