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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