Programme

Registration and refreshments

Chair’s opening remarks

Morning refreshments

Community Land Trusts (CLT): What are they and how can you use them to provide innovative housing in your area?

• Understanding the role CLT can play in your areas housing
• Working in partnership to acquire and take control of the land
• Using CLT to develop acceptable affordable housing
• How a CLT will enable residents and local authorities to build long term assets for reinvestment in your community 

Embedding Local Area Agreements in your housing strategy to deliver local solutions

• Joining up services to deliver a holistic approach from all agencies
• Developing sub-regional partnerships to widen your delivery base, including choice-based lettings
• How you can use LAAs to reduce temporary accommodation
  

Understand how "looking outside the box" has enabled Portsmouth City Council to make drastic changes in their area

• Reducing housing waiting lists from 11500 to 3500
• Casework reduced significantly
• £18 million reinvested across the life of the financial plan
• Reactive repair times reduced from 60 days to 7 days

Question and answer session

Lunch

Innovative solutions: How can your housing strategy respond to a maturing population looking for life-long homes?

• Delivering homes on a budget: Achieving design standards and developing environmentally friendly housing
• What can be done to produce and maintain developments in low value areas?
• National indicators: How and where they will apply to you
  

Making the best use of existing housing stock

• Acquisition of existing and private housing: Identify and source
• What are the funding mechanisms available for this project?
• Meeting HCA standards
• Resourcing affordable housing
• Achieving the space standards in acquired housing 

Best practice case study: Delivering affordable homes in a recession - Hidden Homes Initiative

• Identify potential houses on land you already have
• Obtaining sufficient finding to make this a success
• What were the main health and environmental challenges and how were they overcome?
• What did the process of taking over “homes to be” involve?
• How is the scheme expected to develop over the next 3-5 years?
  

Question and answer session

Afternoon refreshments

Best practice case study: Innovative ideas for delivering more affordable housing

• Setting up a local housing company: How has this changed housing delivery in?
• Developing partnerships and encouraging wide citizen involvement to deliver developments of real quality
• Achieve house building in the current market: Building links with private developers 

Best Practice case study: How have London Borough of Barking and Dagenham coped with housing demands?

• What innovative solutions are they using to produce affordable housing?
• Where did the challenges arise?
• Who did they form partnerships with in order to achieve their goals?
  

Question and answer session

Chair’s closing remarks and close of conference