Presentation from Danielle Gillespie, General Manager HCA North West

1. Successful places
with homes and jobs
A NATIONAL
AGENCY
WORKING
LOCALLY
Investment
programmes across
housing, land and
regeneration
Danielle Gillespie
HCA North West
REGEN2017, Liverpool
23 March 2017
@HCA_UK

2. Overview
 HCA role and approach
 Our offer and ‘toolkit’
 Case study
 How HCA can help you

3. The HCA: our role
 To make a home within reach for
everyone
 Accelerating delivery via our
land, investment, powers and
expertise
 Diversifying the market by
attracting new entrants
 Developing new, innovative
construction methods including
modular housing
 Supporting local growth
ambitions

4. HCA priorities and approach
The housing market is broken
 Delivery not meeting demand
 More homes of all types needed
 Right homes in right location
Our approach
 Focus on delivery to support
Government’s 1 million homes ambition
 Working with the willing (pro-growth,
innovators, disrupters)
 More ‘activist’ approach – new structure,
Chairman and CEO
 Tailoring approaches to meet local
ambitions
– Focus on People and Place
– The ‘R’ word is back!
 £28bn resources – to match ambition
Cottam Hall, Preston
HCA development
consultation

5. Supporting New Home Delivery
‘Every Step of the Way’
Land & Planning
Construction
Finance
Front Door
• Planning advice
• De-risking and
disposal of HCA
land (36k plots)
and OGD sites
• Supporting new
Garden
Settlements
• Site acquisitions
(£1bn)
• Accelerated
construction
(15,000 starts by
2021)
• Supporting MMC
• OJEU compliant
panels
• Industry contacts
• £28bn investment for
new multi-tenure
homes to 2021
• Attracting
international
investment
• Viability advice
• Help-to-Buy
• Affordable rent
and shared
ownership
• PRS – market
scaling

6. Programme Details
Shared Ownership Affordable Homes
Programme (SOAHP)
£6.1bn to support 176,500 new affordable homes
Voluntary Right to Buy £200m to support a 2 year regional pilot
Help to Buy: Equity Loan £8.6bn to support 145,000 purchaser legal completions
Public Sector Land programme Over £1bn for HCA to release market land with the capacity for 36,000
homes
Accelerated Construction £2bn fund to deliver up to 15,000 starts on public sector land
Starter Homes Land Fund £1bn to acquire, invest and de-risk land with the capacity for 25,000 new
homes
Enabling and Capacity Funding £17.5m grant funding for capacity support on large sites and Housing
Zones
Garden Cities, Towns and Villages Fund £7.1m grant funding to support Garden Cities, Towns and Villages
Home Building Fund £1bn short term finance and £2bn longer term infrastructure finance
Estate Regeneration Fund £289m to kick start regeneration of 6,000 homes by 2029
AHP and PRS Guarantee Programmes £3.5bn AHP and £3.5bn PRS funding for guarantee schemes
…….and more to come Housing Infrastructure Fund (£2.3bn)
HCA Programmes

7. HCA supporting Liverpool City Region
2015 to 2021
 HCA investment of
£364m allocated and
profiled upto 2021
 Funding over 7,000
housing starts and 6,000
Help to Buy purchases
 Releasing land for 1200
new homes and bringing
public assets to market
 New Garden Village at
Halsnead, Knowsley
 Wirral Housing Zone
 Developing the pipeline
further within LCR
Clockwise from top left: King’s Dock, Halsnead Garden Village, Sandymoor, Liverpool Festival Gardens site

8. So how can HCA help you?
 National Housing Agency –
linking landowners / investors /
developers with local place
based ambitions and national
priorities
 We understand development &
are here to help to bring
opportunities to the market
 Significant investment available
(c£28bn grants and loans), land
assets and expertise
 A shared ambition to increase
housing delivery and tailor an
offer to meet your needs
Right: The Anfield Project, Liverpool

9. We want your help too…
 To increase housing delivery
 To become more activist by:
– Expanding our network of delivery
partners (new entrants, growing
companies)
– Looking for innovation and new ideas
(disrupters)
– Flexing our tools and programmes to
reflect market challenges and
opportunities on the ground
 So drop in for a chat…
 …but beware - our coffee is terrible!
(Stand C7)

10. Keep in touch
 Danielle.Gillespie@hca.gsi.gov.uk
 0161 200 6174
 linkedin.com/company/homes-&-
communities-agency
 Stand C7 – REGEN2017
 twitter.com/HCA_UK
 Gov.uk/hca