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COMMUNITY LED HOUSING
in the UK
THE OPPORTUNITY FOR A GENERATION
Planning…for the way we want to live
Cohousing Here, SOA Dublin June 14th 2019
Stephen Hill MRICS Churchill Fellow
National CLT & UK Cohousing Networks
@stephenhillFP @ukcohousing
@Community_Land
The wisdom of elderly English men????
… celebrate and
remind ourselves of
all those absolutely
vital links between
us that go back so
many hundreds if
not thousands of
years.
Co-living • Exciting choice to young workers …Eohgan Murphy, Minister of Housing • Thoughtfully designed, curated community living residence …Node PR
The new tenements?
• We need to question the
assumption that extra height
and smaller units will solve
the housing crisis
…John O’Hara, Dublin City Planner
• Battery-cage type accommodation
17 sq.m …Micheal Martin, Fianna Fail Leader
• Ludicrous…attempt to normalise
14 Henrietta St cramped living conditions and
1.8 sq.m per person erode public housing standards
…Brendan Howlin, Labour Party Leader
What’s co-living really about?
• Users are passive agents….unrealistic to expect present top down
and market led structures to meet (modern) needs
…Tom O’Donnell, The Journal
• People who live there have no agency or input of the design
or the long-term management of the building
…Padraig Flynn, Dublin InQuirer
THE next phase in the growth and evolution of Ireland's build-to-rent
market is under way, with increasing numbers of investors looking for
opportunities to invest in so-called micro-living and co-living concepts
… Ronald Quinlan, Commercial Property Editor, Independent
What’s going on England today?
Nearly
6000
homes
in the
pipeline,
mostly
in
HOT
markets
State of community housing in England
What’s been available in the past?
Previous funding sources Set Up & Pre-development costs - Revenue • CLT Start Up Fund – 2008 ongoing to 2020 • £14m Community Led Project Support Fund - to March 2015 • £3m Community Buildings and Housing Fund – to now …but… • Charitable foundations – local hubs, pilot programmes Grants - Capital • £25m CLH ‘ring fenced’ Affordable Homes Programme 2013-15 • £50m Community Empty Homes Programme – to 2015 – 2000 homes
Budget
WOW! £60m! Rural/Coastal Areas/2nd Homes
33% Fund to South West 2016
When you
vote Blue
…your
voice will be
heard in Westminster!WOW! £60m…a year for 5 years! 2nd Homes
…still 33% Fund to South West
Year 1 Fund to 140+ Councils:
1. Local enabling framework - Hubs
2. Grant for group set-up
3. Grant to get planning
4. Flexi-Capital/Revenue/Grant/Loan
5. GROW A SECTORWOW! £60m…a year for 4(2) years! Anywhere
…but still 33% Fund to South West
1. MHCLG Steering Group
for strategic oversight of programme
2. Expanding and grant funding the national
local enabling network
3. Training & Accreditation of Advisers
4. National Advice Centre & Website
Single point access/helpline & real time data
5. Small Grants to community groups
- becoming a ‘registered provider’
- groups not covered by enabling networkCLH national infrastructure
National Advice
National Network
Community Centre & Website
Local Enablers Led Homes
[NCLTN] Single Point Access
JV [UKCN]
Movement building
Training and CHF & comms work
Accreditation Steering [All]
for advisers Group
[CCH]
Ministry
of Homes Small Grants Programme
Housing England Set-Up/Registration/Gap
[Locality]Community Housing Fund 2018/20
National policy to enable local solutions
• Homes England Prospectus for the relaunched
CHF finally ready in 2018…with just 2 years to go
• Prospectus in 2 parts: Revenue £60m (May)
& Capital £180m (September)
• Funding aimed primarily for community groups,
but councils and housing associations can be
recipient partners
National/Local Hubs coverageCommunity Led Housing - Definition
The three principles:
1. Meaningful community engagement and consent occurs
throughout the process. The community does not necessarily
have to initiate and manage the development process, or build
the homes themselves, though many may do
2. The local community group or organisation owns, manages or
stewards the homes, in a manner of their choosing
3. The benefits to the local area and/or specified community
must be clearly defined and legally protected in perpetuity.Other national support for local projects
•
Urban Hubs…Data collection…
National Access Centre…Training Seeding Local Authority Guidance
new groups2007 Cornwall CLT Programme
Unique partnerships… enabling district
155+ completed councils, their communities, local landowners,
100+ in pipeline Carnegie UK Trust & a housing associationAverage house price £650,000
Market value £360,000
Cost with land £120,000
Shared Equity 33%
It’s more important that
I have a home in the
place that I grew up in,
where my family are,
where I work,
than make a lot of
money out of my house.
Charlie
Affordability ‘in perpetuity’
St. Minver CLTCommunity Leadership and Enabling Partners
• Cornwall Council £4m
Revolving Fund
• Programme momentum
• Capital and revenue cost
recovery
• Political lobbying…show, not tell
• CLT Fund ‘See it and Believe It’Partnerships around Land
Alignment of interests… Council
a l…
or m
ot n
Landowner
CLT
n
Enabling
Developer
t e ly
f i n i
D e
Community
…doubling the rate of supply in village locations(East) London CLT, St Clement’s, Bow
Community Organising made it happen
Listening
Campaigns
and holding
politicians to
account:
Communities
should be able to
take more Housing must be really
responsibility affordable…based on what
for their own local people actually earn.
areas.253 new homes
23 Limited Equity homes
• [Part V quota] 35% Affordable - Social Rent (Peabody)
& Intermediate Sale (LCLT)
• Sale and Resale formula in lease sets values
• Linked to local median incomes c.£30k pa
• Was 48% Market Value in 2013…now 27%
Ricardo Square
Catalyst for
3500 more
CLT homes
in LondonCommunity Led Housing Hub London
Additional supply from
• £250k to set up a one-stop advice
sites that might not and resource centre
otherwise come forward
Community development • £Match Funding from CDS Coops and
opportunities in strategic pooled CHF grants from councils
sites
Community support for
• Hub ‘Launch’ went live April 2018
more homes and more
genuinely affordable
homes • £500k for 22 custom-built homes by
Political good news Naked House
stories about
development • GLA (Affordable Housing) Innovation
Innovative approaches
Fund
to downsizing
• GLA & TfL Small Sites ProgrammeCommunity Led Housing Hub
London Landowners
https://www.communityledhousing.London/ Public/Private
Faith & Community
Organisations
GLA
& London Councils
CLHHL
Technical
Community
Community Housing aid Groups
Fund
Enabling Partners
Housing Associations
DevelopersBrasted Close, London CLT & LB Lewisham
• 11 permanently affordable homes
to replace a row of garages on council
estate in Sydenham
• Prices linked to local wages
1 bedroom apartments for £192,000
2 bedroom apartments for £244,000
– < 65% market value of similar homes.
• The project is part of wider plan by
Lewisham Mayor to deliver 200 CLT
homes over the next four years in
similar small sites.St ART…Community redevelopment of
St Anne’s Hospital, South Tottenham
Social Rent
London Living Rent
Limited Equity
Supported Living
- Mental Health
- Senior LGBT
Cohousing
NHS Plans for 450 homes StART Plans for 800 homes
Only 14% Affordable At least 75% Affordable“It’s like New York in the 1950’s all over again” We will not be moved!
New Civic Build-to-Rent Sector CSSZ
• Camley St – 100% Affordable
900 homes and 1700 jobs
• = 40-60-80% Market Rents
• NPV of Headlease
3 x Capital Receipt today
• Equity finance
• LA Land & 2 Pension Funds
Working with councils to maximise long term revenue
return on land asset and amount of genuinely and
permanently affordable housingLeeds Community Homes
– New City Region Hub January 2018
Our hub
We’ve created a space where we can
all work together to create people
powered homes
Our homes
We’re building 16 permanently
affordable homes in Leeds’ Climate
Innovation District
Enabler service
We support local community groups
to create their own community
housingLeeds Climate Innovation District – Citu Homes On site factory built homes: pt-funded by £7.7m loan from Leeds City Region Revolving Investment Fun 16 CLT homes - S.106 [Part V quota]
Cohousing - LILAC &
LILAC - £420k
DECC/HCA grant
for natural materials
CHACO - £990K
Housing
Infrastructure
FundRenewing CLTs thru’ Community Organising
‘…solidarity between people at the margins and the threatened middle classes’
Right to the City and Community Organising Caucus
National CLT Network Conference, Cleveland 2014State of cohousing in the UK
• 60 plus groups in development
• 20 established cohousing communities
• 4 groups started on site last year
• 7 Senior Cohousing Groups
• Strong media interest - Cohousing
identified as one of ‘Top 10 Solutions’
to housing crisis
• 25% annual increase searches for
cohousing on Zoopla
• 6000 hits on our website in typical Copper Lane Cohousing
Stoke Newington, London
month2017 OWCH, New Ground, High Barnet
Mixed tenure Mutual self care
social rent &
leasehold flats for over-55sPart Self-funded and developed
17 Tudor Trust investment
s 2 0
rd in social rent
a
w ard
n A w
Hanover & Homes for Women
e sig A
g D u il d r 4.5m
sin B n n e hits o
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Ho Cust al l W BBC N n
Ov e r Faceb ews
ookHousing LIN, HACT, and APPG on Ageing
- Cohousing for Older People
1. Rural Housing Demand
Pilot Study - North Yorks
2. Lifetime Neighbourhood Retrofit Pilot
– Cowley in Oxford
3. Retrofit Sheltered Housing Case Study
– Self-managed rescue of failed project at
Woodchester Valley, Nailsworth, Glos
4. HLIN, HACT, UKCT workshop for HAs
and LAs
5. Purpose Built Case Studies
- OWCH and Cannock Mill
6. Evidence to HAPPI 3/4 and APPG
http://www.housinglin.org.uk/Topics/browse/Housing/HousingforOlderPeople/CohousingFirst grant funded affordable
cohousing
Mixed tenure cohousing with
Synergy Housing Association
Shared facilities include:
• The stone farmhouse for visiting guests,
and shared meals
• 1 acre community market garden
• Laundry
• Car pool
The Threshold Centre
Cohousing Community
DorsetGovernment & Cohousing
Spring 2019 - MHCLG
Loneliness Research
to be commissioned covering
the impact on loneliness of:
• The co-design process involved
in making a cohousing project
happen, and
• Living in a completed
cohousing projectSturts Community Trust, Ferndown, Dorset
• Independent living in cohousing
• Biodynamic Farm, Garden & Shop
• Work and Learning
• Leisure time
• Culture & Festivals
• Volunteering placementsOrchard Park Growth Area
• 1000 homes
• Including 300 affordable [Part V quota]
• Community Centre
• New Primary School
• New public spaces
• Sport facilities
• Commercial….limited
• Hotels
• Guided bus to city centre, stations,
major employment areasK1 Site Orchard Park
• City Council Freehold
• 2.31 acres
• Outline planning for 36
homes
• Affordable requirement
already built
• No major constraints
• Electricity Sub Station.
• Drain and tree belt
• Area Design GuidanceCreating streets people really want to live on…
Marmalade Lane
42 houses and flats
Co-financed with enabling developer
and investor on Cambridge Council land…unlike these streets …the product of most ‘normal’ masterplans and a 350 page design guide
Getting started
Nearly finished
…always at Christmas!Settling in
…all work and play…and work!https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2019/may/08/ April 2019 marmalade-lane-co-housing-cambridge Launch Day
Planning for the way we want to live Lib Dem Councillor Labour Councillor
special • Witness • permanent affordability • Long term • social and physical change • Civic partnerships • MARKET DISRUPTION
A CLT must… Change the way
the land market
works…
RUSS CLT
33 homes
Rent & Sale
Self-build
S.79 Housing & Regeneration Act 2008“ RIBA
Ethics &
Sustainable
Development
Commissions
2018
United Nations ”
Sustainable Development Goal 11“Weirdy, they are not normal” Ward Councillor (from the then Big Society Party) at Stroud District Council Planning Committee
Building new markets
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Growing the Voice of the Demand Side
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