1. Delivering Quality Places
Louise Wyman
Area Manager
November 2011

2. Contents
§ Current delivery context at the
HCA
§ Design at the HCA
§ Principles of making great
places
§ Localism: Delivering for local
communities

3. Current delivery context
§ Limited public funding
§ Investment and Enabling
§ HCA investment is focused on 4
key areas:
• Affordable housing
• Renewal of existing social
housing stock
• Land and regeneration
• Economic Assets Programme
§ Locally driven growth

4. Our role in land
HCA Land
§ Existing P&R commitments
§ Accelerated disposal sites
Other government land
§ Technical support to government
departments - Health, Defra,
Defence, Transport
Economic Assets Programme
§ 52 coalfield assets
§ Over 300 further sites, value of
£300m
§ Local stewardship arrangements

5. HCA’s investment role
Affordable Homes Programme 2011-15
§ £4.5bn (£2.3bn existing
commitments)
§ 146 RP’s selected
§ 103 offers agreed
§ 43 contracts signed
§ FirstBuy support for c.10,000
First Time Buyers
“Helping deliver the Government’s ambition to build up to 170,000 new
high quality affordable homes by 2015”

6. Design and Delivery at the HCA
§ The HCA’s existing
Design and Quality
Standards 2007 retained
for the 2011- 15
Affordable Homes
Programme
§ Code for Sustainable
Homes level 3 as a Watermanʼs Place, Leeds#
minimum standard on all
grant funded schemes

7. Next steps for design in the AHP
Quality audit, feedback from
partners and site visits
Learning from evidence:
§ external design and open
space could be improved
§ Building for Life useful
assessment tool
AHP structure supports
early stage design work Award-winning low carbon development#
Cross Street South, Wolverhampton#
with RP partners

8. Putting communities in charge
§ AHP scope for community-led
projects and access to funding
§ Enabling and sign-posting:
– Improving access to
information and expertise
– HCA community-led champions
– Working with LAs and RPs to
explore community-led
opportunities and share best-
practice

9. Creating Quality Places
The Housing and Regeneration Act 2008
HCA’s statutory objects to:
§ improve the supply and quality of housing in England
§ secure the regeneration or development of land or
infrastructure in England
§ support in other ways the creation, regeneration or
development of communities in England or their continued
well-being
§ contribute to the achievement of sustainable development
and good design in England, with a view to meeting the
needs of people living in England.

10. Creating Quality Places

11. Creating Quality Places

12. Principles of Place Making
1. Places for people#

13. Principles of Place Making
2. Enrich the existing#
Retail Arcades, Leeds# Corn Exchange, Leeds#

14. Principles of Place Making
Enrich the existing#
Shoe factory, Northampton# Upton, Northampton#

15. Principles of Place Making
3. Make the Connections#
Grey Street, Newcastle#
Quayside, Newcastle#

16. Principles of Place Making
Make the Connections#
More London to Tower Bridge# Millennium Bridge to St. Pauls#

17. Principles of Place Making
4. Mix use and form#
Round Foundry Leeds#

18. Principles of Place Making
5. Work with the Landscape#

19. Principles of Place Making
Work with the Landscape#

20. Principles of Place Making
6. Manage the investment#

21. Principles of Place Making
7. Design for Change#

22. Principles of Place Making
Design for Change#
High Line, New York# Albert Dock, Liverpool#

23. HCA in the Midlands
Green Street, The Meadows, Nottingham
§ Blueprint scheme
§ Built by Lovell
§ Marsh Grochowski
Architects

24. HCA in the Midlands
Green Street, The Meadows, Nottingham
§ 38 3&4 bed homes
§ Code level 4
§ BfL Gold
§ Bold placemaking
§ Sustainable design

25. HCA in the Midlands
§ Upton, Northampton
§ 1,380 new homes
all EcoHomes ‘Excellent’
§ 6 homes at Site D1
achieving Code Level 6
§ School, playing fields, SUDS

26. HCA in the Midlands
§ Attwood Green, Birmingham

27. Conclusions
§ HCA’s work with local partners key
to delivering Government’s
objectives on localism and growth
§ We help LA’s deliver their
communities’ local priorities
§ Significant current opportunities
– Affordable homes programme
– Community led development
– Disposal sites
– Developing assets
§ Commitment to quality places
Crocodile Works, Birmingham

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