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Moray Finch General Manager, Mull and Iona Community Trust Rural Housing Scotland 2017 Conference
Delivering Affordable Housing
Moray Finch General Manager, Mull and Iona Community Trust Rural - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Moray Finch General Manager, Mull and Iona Community Trust Rural - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Moray Finch General Manager, Mull and Iona Community Trust Rural Housing Scotland 2017 Conference Delivering Affordable Housing WHERE? Delivering Affordable Housing Isle of Mull ~3000 residents Aging population (but increasing)
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Delivering Affordable Housing
- Isle of Mull
- ~3000 residents
- Aging population (but increasing)
- Tourism dominated economy, also fishing, aquaculture,
farming, forestry, crafts
- High proportion of second homes – 13% in Argyll but
30% in Ulva Ferry
- 110 residents within school catchment area
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WHY?
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- 2010 Ulva School threatened with closure
- Ulva School Community Association (USCA) formed to
mount a campaign against closure
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- USCA carried out their own Housing Needs Analysis
- March 2011 A&BC lifted threat of school closures
- USCA realised the battle was won
- BUT NOT THE WAR!!
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HOW?
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- USCA asked MICT for capacity building support
- Joint application to HIE was successful and MICT
then employed a Local Development Officer
- Extensive consultations produced a Community
Development Plan with prioritised list of projects to help Strengthen the Community and sustain the school
- Number one priority?
- Affordable Housing!
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- Local landowner offered building plots
- Meeting with Derek Logie and USCA
- Scottish Land Fund for purchase and revenue costs
to employ a Housing Project Manager
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March 2015
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- Funding package
- A&BC Rural Housing Development
Fund
- Rural Housing Fund
- Quaker Housing Trust grant
- Quaker Housing Trust interest free
loan
- Trusthouse Charitable Trust
- Donations
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WHAT?
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- Consultation with USCA and wider community
- Community led design process, key attributes
- Energy Efficiency
- Living Space
- Flexibility
- Sustainability
- Secure tenancy
- Nice
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WHO?
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- Allocation policy drawn up with help from West
Highland Housing Association
- Designed to favour families with links to the area
and with children for the primary school
- Rents to be mid-market (£443 pcm)
- Annual space heating bills ~£300 per year
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Closing Thoughts
- Officially there is no demand for the Ulva Ferry Houses –
REALLY? We hope to build more!!
- Mull businesses are constrained by lack of housing for
prospective employees
- Building Standards need to be updated to require mechanical
ventilation heat recovery or similar, along with even lower annual space heating demand. This will need government incentives!
- The Ulva ferry Housing project;
- is revealing the hidden demand
- moving towards a new standard of energy efficiency to make
affordable housing affordable to heat
- directly addressing population decline in a remote rural location
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Reminder of why
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Thanks to our funders