Delivering Sustainable Communities Through an MAA

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Delivering Sustainable Communities Through an MAA

• Jeff Goode
• Director
• Transform South Yorkshire

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Introduction

• Why we want an MAA
• What we could achieve through an MAA
• What an MA could include
• What we need
• What we could achieve through an MAA
• Where we are now

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Why an MAA?

• Funding through separate streams
• Re-application required for renewed or successive
  funding
• Each with own bidding, appraisal, eligibility and
  spending rules and performance reporting
  arrangements
• Uncertainty, reflected in measured engagement by
  private sector and communities sceptical about
  ability to deliver promised change

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What we could achieve
Pooled to Single Stream Funding for people
and places
Single Neighbourhoods focused funding stream
supports delivery of 10 year strategy with
pooling at sub regional level and strategic
alignment at City Region level
Multi Area Agreements Increased impact through
pooling at sub regional level Strategic context
provided by City Region joint issue board

• Expanded LAA
• Pooling of resources
• Flexibility of use

City to City Region planning and funding alignment
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What we could include

• Housing Market Renewal
• Decent Homes
• Major repairs allowance
• Capital receipts
• Regional Housing Board resources
• National Affordable Housing Programme
• S106 Affordable Housing resources including
  commuted sums
• Supporting People
• NRF

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What we need

• Pooling of resources
• Flexibility around eligibility criteria
• Unrestricted use of capital receipts
• Supporting projects across programme years
• Permissible to cash-flow conducive activity
• Long-term single stream funding linked to 10 year
  strategy and investment plan
• Relaxation on clawback
• Streamlining performance monitoring and inspection

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What we could achieve

• Integration of capital and revenue funding to
  support neighbourhood focused regeneration and
  services
• Efficient and effective use of the totality of
  resources to deliver more affordable housing more
  rapidly
• Simplifying the delivery of major regeneration
  project, e.g. Park Hill, currently made complex
  by the multiplicity of funding streams
• Better private sector engagement
• Enabling the delivery of neighbourhood centres
• Efficiencies through longer-term procurement and
  partnerships
• Capitalising on windfall projects and
  opportunities
• An investment response to Communities England
• Community confidence in the ability to see
  through transformational change

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Where we are now
Regional Assembly and Regional Planning / Housing
Board

South Yorkshire Partnership alignment of
funding with economic programme
City Region Joint Issue Boards
Transform South Yorkshire Sub Regional
partnership
Multi Area Agreement
Barnsley MDC
Doncaster MDC
Rotherham MDC
Sheffield MDC
LSP
LSP
LAA
LAA
LAA
LAA
Programme Delivery Boards
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Challenges

• Strategic
• Strong partnership
• Robust strategy
• Spatial priorities

• Operational
• Agree approach
• Indicator setting
• Dynamic debate/timescales