The Housing Green Paper Homes for the Future: More Affordable, More Sustainable Tenants Forum 11 Oct

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The Housing Green Paper Homes for the Future
More Affordable, More Sustainable Tenants
Forum11 October 2007
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The Challenges

• Demand for homes to rent or buy far outstrips
  supply.
• House prices are growing much faster than
  salaries and wages.
• Young people are finding it particularly
  difficult to get a home of their own.
• New housing has to be located in sustainable
  communities where people are happy to live.
• Climate change means that housing has to be
  greener and better designed in future.

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The Governments Plans

• More new homes
• in places where people want to live..
• at a price they can afford.

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More new homes.

• Between now and 2016, 2 million new homes will be
  built.
• New homes already planned (including the Growth
  areas) 1,600,000
• New homes to be planned under new Regional
  Spatial Strategies 150,000
• Homes to be provided in the 29 New Growth Points
  100,000
• Homes to be provided in additional New Growth
  Points 50,000
• Homes to be provided in the five new eco-town
  schemes 100,000

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More new homes.

• The new homes will be delivered through a variety
  of mechanisms.
• reviewing regional plans to ensure they reflect
  the new targets for housing
• setting targets for developing affordable homes
  in rural areas
• introducing a Housing and Planning Delivery Grant
  for councils
• requiring councils to identify housing land
  needed for the next 15 years
• building 200,000 new homes on surplus public
  sector land
• enabling councils to establish local housing
  companies to redevelop council sites
• developing 60 of new homes on brownfield sites
• encouraging councils to reduce the number of
  empty private sector homes

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in places where people want to live

• High quality new homes will be located in
  sustainable communities
• introducing planning gain supplement
• investing in infrastructure in the growth areas
• introducing new procedures for planning schools,
  health centres and transport
• strengthening building regulations so that carbon
  emissions from homes are reduced.
• maintaining green belts
• ensuring that new communities are well-designed,
  sustainable and inclusive, and contain affordable
  homes and proper infrastructure

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at a price that people can afford

• More homes for rent and shared ownership
• Investing 8 billion in affordable homes between
  2008 and 2011
• Building 70,000 affordable homes a year by
  2010/2011
• Encouraging private developers to play a greater
  role in developing affordable homes
• Enabling councils to develop new housing for rent
  and shared ownership through arms length
  management organisations or local housing
  companies
• Using public sector land to deliver additional
  affordable homes

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The Implications for Kettering?

• Growth areas, such as Milton Keynes South
  Midlands, continue to be regarded as a nationally
  important route for developing new homes
• Another 13,100 new homes for Kettering by 2021
• Government recognises that new housing must be
  high quality, eco friendly and located in
  sustainable communities
• Schemes such as Peaselands and Whiteford Drive

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The Implications for Kettering?

• Councils are being encouraged to utilise land
  holdings for affordable housing
• Examples are Sussex Road, Peaselands, Whiteford
  Drive
• Councils will be able to build new homes using
  ALMOs or local housing companies
• Are there the opportunities in Kettering to make
  this worthwhile?
• Councils need to work in partnership with a wide
  range of partners to develop affordable homes
• Housing associations, private developers, Homes
  and Communities Agency, other public agencies