Thriving communities, affordable homes The Homes & Communities Agency Driving Delivery Through Place: Crafting sustainable neighbourhoods David Warburton Head of Area 27 November 2009

Thriving communities, affordable homes The Homes and Communities Agency  the national housing and regeneration Agency;  £5 billion annual budget across the English Regions;  homes and communities;  a new agency with new ways of working and with a new place based, rather than project based, product;  focus on outcomes for people and communities, and not just physical outputs.

Thriving communities, affordable homes Our ‘product’ Mixed Communities Integrated mixed use, mixed tenure/income walkable neighbourhoods

Thriving communities, affordable homes And New Challenges – Responding to Climate Change…. Hanham Hall, South Gloucestershire  England’s first large-scale zero carbon Code for Sustainable Homes Level 6 community, with Barratt Homes;  195 homes and 2,000m² employment and mixed use space.

Thriving communities, affordable homes A new business model: the Single Conversation, a place-based investment process  A new investment planning process to facilitate a Place Based approach to delivering our business;  Land, housing, infrastructure, regeneration, employment, training, health, education..  In mixed use, mixed income neighbourhoods that people choose to live and work in, and can afford to live in.

Thriving communities, affordable homes What’s different in housing and regeneration investment?  HCA as one of the main investors will now focus on ‘place’ - on place based priorities and priority themes delivered through the Single Conversation and Local Investment Plans;  A move away from Continuous Market Engagement (first past the post) to Commissioning within priority places;  New partnerships with local authorities, the private sector, and housing associations;  New business products – increased focus on investment rather than grant, to match this new business process;  And seeks a new form of engagement with local partners based around creating new and regenerated places, and the contribution HCA investment in housing and affordable housing, infrastructure, land and regeneration can make.