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Housing in Bolton Bolton Community Homes Bolton Community Homes Strategic Housing Partnership Keith Davies Guy Cresswell Jon Lord Introduction Context for how housing operates in Bolton: Strategic context for Bolton Strategic


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Housing in Bolton

Bolton Community Homes Bolton Community Homes Strategic Housing Partnership

Keith Davies Guy Cresswell Jon Lord

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Introduction

  • Context for how housing operates in Bolton:

– Strategic context for Bolton – Strategic Context for GM – Bolton Community Homes – Bolton Community Homes

  • Housing Facts
  • Why Housing is important
  • Challenges
  • Offer and Ask
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Housing Strategy Priorities:

  • To provide housing that is affordable and offers

choice whilst meeting the needs and demands of the future;

  • To create and promote communities that are

To create and promote communities that are sustainable and inclusive;

  • To improve the quality of private sector housing;
  • To promote health, well-being and quality of life;
  • To strengthen our partnership approach to improve

housing, services and communities.

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Strategic Context - Bolton

  • Core Strategy position – Allocation Plan agreed
  • 5 Year land supply – Target 694 dwellings per annum
  • 35% should be affordable
  • Increasing pressure to supply land
  • Increasing pressure to supply land
  • Major sites such as Rivington Chase key to delivery
  • Housing target likely to increase so further land

required

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Strategic Context GM

  • City Deal includes a £300m Housing Investment Fund
  • 80% Recyclable Loans to be repaid 3 times in 10

years

  • Expectation to deliver 10 – 15,000 homes.
  • New approach to spatial planning – GM Spatial

Framework by 2018

  • Establishment of TOPco and GM Place to facilitate

delivery.

  • Bolton’s Place at the table
  • Registered Provider role within AGMA
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Bolton Community Homes

  • Strategic Housing Partnership for Bolton.
  • Membership is made up of Housing Associations,

voluntary sector, Council including Health.

  • We own and manage over 23, 500 homes and employ
  • We own and manage over 23, 500 homes and employ

more than 1,300 people in Bolton.

  • Unique model that brings added value and
  • pportunities to communities.
  • Projects funded by reserves
  • Strongly linked into Greater Manchester through the

GM Providers Group

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Housing Facts: Households and Tenure

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Housing Facts: sales and prices

  • Average house price in Bolton is £89,277,

which is a decrease of 3.5% from the same time last year.

  • Average private sector rent for a 3 bedroom
  • Average private sector rent for a 3 bedroom

house is £460pcm

  • Average affordable rent for a 3 bedroom

house is £368 pcm.

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Housing Facts: Stock Condition and Empty Properties

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Housing Facts: Housing Need and Demand

  • There are 21,003 people currently registered

with Homes for Bolton.

  • 2,225 households were rehoused by BCH

partners last year. partners last year.

  • 277 people were accepted as statutory

homeless last year.

  • 3,084 customers sought housing advice in

2014/15.

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Why is housing important?

  • A home …….

– Health & well being – Educational attainment – Financial security – Financial security – Ability to work and sustain employment – Community cohesion & sustainable communities – Environment

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Why is Housing Important?

We help shape and deliver strategic priorities in communities

  • Development and Growth
  • Skills and employment
  • Health and Wellbeing
  • Sustainable Communities
  • Cross cutting
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Why is Housing Important?

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Why is Housing Important? We are the GLUE at a neighbourhood level

  • Unique insight into communities and people’s lives.
  • Facilitate the bringing together of multiple agencies.
  • Provide residents and communities

with a voice.

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Development and Growth

  • New Affordable Housing to meet the needs of the

Borough

  • Provision of specialist housing
  • Balancing communities through lettings policies
  • Piloting new design and build techniques
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Skills and Employment

  • Apprenticeships
  • UCANs:

– Work clubs – Volunteering Work with college – Work with college – Work placements

  • The LASE project
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Health and Wellbeing

  • Safe, Warm and Dry homes
  • Supporting Independent Living
  • Aids and adaptations
  • Preventative services
  • Older Person’s Housing Strategy

– Specialist Housing schemes – Assistive technology and Careline

  • Food growing; co-operatives
  • Social isolation
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Sustainable Communities

  • UCANs:

– Community business/social enterprise – UCAN Build a New Beginning Project – Health initiatives – Arts – Arts

  • Community Safety

– ASB Cross Tenure Group – Somebody’s Sister, Somebody’s Daughter

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Anti - poverty

  • Supporting and signposting
  • Debt Management and

budgeting

  • Leading the way on fuel

Poverty and Behaviour change

  • Tackling food poverty
  • Tackling food poverty
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Challenges

  • Welfare reform
  • Growth and Regeneration

– Land availability – Balancing economic drivers with fulfilling need – Demand issues Demand issues – Funding/Costs of work

  • Supporting Independence in the Community

– Reduced funding for preventative services – Complex Needs – Social Isolation

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Ask and Offer

  • WE CAN

– Build new homes – Provide insight and a link into local communities – Help make best use of OUR resources – Offer our time and commitment

  • IF YOU

– Recognise and use… – …Planning

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Any Questions? Any Questions?