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The Development Partnership Forum is a new initiative from The Housing Forum to bring government and industry together to share best practice and support new entrants into housing development.

 

It is a highly relevant initiative as government signals a range of measures to accelerate and increase house building.

Development Partnership Forums will be held on a quarterly basis in London and the core cities to give a platform for government, agencies and the industry to better understand emerging policy, the development life cycle, commercial and construction considerations.

The Forums will always be topical, covering current issues. This Forum examined how the long-term commitment to building more homes provides certainty and continuity for the industry to develop solutions and invest.

The emerging signs of flexibility towards more mixed tenure will help bring more homes to market.

Private finance is available as investors look for the stable, long-term income streams that rented housing provides. It takes time to build investor confidence and frequent policy changes undermine that hard-won confidence with the danger that investors will look to other sources of guaranteed income.

The Forum also featured how innovation (off-site or pre-manufacturing) is seen by the Government as a way to increase speed and quality and it has invited industry views on these approaches.

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Contributors:

Andy von Bradsky, Chairman

The Housing Forum

Richard Chapman, Housing Strategy

DCLG

Jamie Ratcliff , Assistant Director of Policy, Programmes and Services

Greater London Authority

Ken Jones, Director of Housing and Growth

London Borough of Waltham Forest

SallyAnne Logan , Project Manager

Ashford Borough Council

Paul Naylor, Deputy Chief Executive

Ashford Borough Council

Alan Collett, Residential Sector Consultant

M&G Real Estate

Ian Fletcher, Director of Policy (Real Estate)

British Property Federation

Paul Hardisty, Chief Executive

QSH

Carl Vann, Partner

Pollard Thomas Edwards

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