This Forum covered different initiatives to stimulate housing supply in different areas of the country and featured approaches, programme resourcing and capacity testing Estate Regeneration and developing a range of additional new homes.
Councils undertaking estate regeneration and housing delivery can manage a complex financial model and project management by applying the right skills and governance structures.
Estate regeneration is a long-term undertaking that must require that clear objectives are understood and supported by residents, the wider community, all councillors and senior executives in a local authority. This requires a careful process of consultation and engagement based on good evidence and realistic offers.
Commercial development requires a different culture and approach to finance from local authority funding mechanisms. The right skills from specialist consultants can help to build and/or provide this.
The GLA’s new ‘Building Council Homes for Londoners’ programme is designed to offer a range of support and more flexible finance arrangements for each council that takes account of its skills and needs.
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Contributors:
Andy von Bradsky, Chairman, The Housing Forum
Architectural Advisor, MHCLG
Rachael Hickman, Senior Area Manager – North East London
Greater London Authority
Jitinder Takhar, Chief Executive
Local Space Ltd
Simon Thompson, Assistant Director, Private Sector Housing Development and Regeneration
Stoke-on-Trent City Council
Caroline Pillay, Development Director
Airey Miller
Daniel Partridge, Director of Regeneration & Partnerships
PRD
Delia Beddis, Partner
Newbridge Advisors LLP
Julian Hart, Director
Lancefield Consulting Ltd
Virginia Blackman, Director
GVA
John Lumley, Director – Regeneration, Neighbourhoods & Housing
London Borough of Hackney
Barry McCullough, Director,
Levitt Bernstein
Glyn Tully, Associate Director
Levitt Bernstein
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