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- 1. Housing Devolution Now and next. Brian Robson, Executive Director (Policy & Public Affairs), Northern Housing Consortium 9th February 2023
- 2. About the NHC Northern Housing Festival 9/2/23 ▪ Collective voice of housing in the north – 140 councils, housing associations, ALMOs, MCAs. ▪ Member-led ▪ Insight, influence and solutions
- 3. What I’ll cover Northern Housing Festival 9/2/23 ▪ Devolution in the Levelling Up White Paper and the Levelling Up Bill ▪ The state of play so far : what’s devolved and where ▪ Future prospects for housing devolution
- 4. Levelling Up White Paper Northern Housing Festival 9/2/23
- 5. Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill Northern Housing Festival 9/2/23 What’s inside? ▪ Levelling-up Missions ▪ Devolution in two-tier areas ▪ Regeneration – rental auctions / CPO ▪ Planning reform
- 6. State of play today Northern Housing Festival 9/2/23
- 7. State of play next May Northern Housing Festival 9/2/23 New North East MCA, covering T&W, Northumberland & Durham (e.g. NoTCA & NECA) New MCA for City of York and North Yorkshire
- 8. Housing: what’s in the deals? Northern Housing Festival 9/2/23 GM South Yorks Tees Valley L’pool North Tyne West Yorks Public land commission/ joint assets board CPO Mayoral Development Corporations Planning call in Consultation on strategic planning applications Housing grant fund Spatial strategy Adapted from House of Commons Library Briefing
- 9. Housing: what’s in the deals? Northern Housing Festival 9/2/23 GM SY TV LCR NoT WY NE YNY Public land commission/ joint assets board CPO Mayoral Development Corporations Planning call in Consultation on strategic planning applics Housing grant fund Spatial strategy Adapted from House of Commons Library Briefing
- 10. Brownfield: funding that meets the North’s needs? Northern Housing Festival 9/2/23 ¾ of North’s brownfield housing capacity in existing MCAs (230,000 homes) ✓£700m Brownfield Housing Fund ✓Allocated directly to MCAs ▪ Subject to tight Treasury rules ▪ ‘Delegated, not devolved’
- 11. Future prospects for devo? Northern Housing Festival 9/2/23 ‘At or approaching the highest levels of devo..’ London: • Acquired HCA’s London Budget and functions in 2011 • £4bn carve-out of Affordable Homes Programme, managed directly by GLA • Sets the London Plan, which boroughs must be in ‘general conformity’ with.
- 12. Future prospects for devo? Northern Housing Festival 9/2/23 Gove speech to Convention of the North last month “We want to devolve even more housing funding, including exploring giving more control of the Affordable Homes Programme to the West Midlands and Greater Manchester. At the moment London is the only mayoral authority controlling this budget and if we want more of the homes we need in the places where they are needed, regenerating those brownfield sites and driving growth, this devolution is vital and necessary.”
- 13. Future prospects for devo? Northern Housing Festival 9/2/23 And in the red corner… Levelling up ‘theory of change’ is wrong • Would scrap the ‘Missions’ ‘Take Back Control Bill’ • Greater scope of devolution • Greater scale of devolution
- 14. Future prospects for devo? Northern Housing Festival 9/2/23 Devo, Duty Now for the Future (1979), Museum of Modern Art
- 15. Thank you Northern Housing Festival Brian Robson, Executive Director (Policy & Public Affairs), Northern Housing Consortium 9th February 2023