HCA Executive Director for the Midlands Karl Tupling's presentation to the Derby Housing Zone launch event in the city, on 10 March 2016. The event focused on ambitious investment and growth plans for the city's Housing Zone, which will include the construction of over 2,000 new new homes across the Housing Zone over the next decade or so.

1. Strong communities with homes and jobs
Working in partnership with
Derby to support housing and
economic growth
Karl Tupling
Executive Director Midlands
Homes and Communities Agency (HCA)

2. Strong communities with homes and jobs
Emerging picture post spend review
• Government housing ambitions
• Build 1 million homes over the Parliament
• 275,000 affordable homes
• Land to deliver 160,000 homes
• Focus on home ownership
• Double number of first time buyers
• Extend Right to Buy to 1.3million
further households
• Continue funding Help to Buy to 2020-21

3. Strong communities with homes and jobs
Affordable housing
• Affordable housing doubled to £8bn
from 2018-19
• 400,000 affordable homes by 2020-21
• 200,000 Starter Homes, with £2.3bn fund
to support delivery of 60,000 of these
• 135,000 Help to Buy shared ownership
• 10,000 Rent to Buy
• 8,000 homes for vulnerable/older people

4. Strong communities with homes and jobs
HCA tools
• Accelerate housing supply & build more homes
• Reforms to planning system
• Release public sector land with 160,000 homes capacity
• Unused commercial land re-designated for Starter Homes
• 2016-21 Affordable Homes Programme
• £3bn housing development funds to
support future housing supply
• £2.3bn for housing infrastructure
• £700m programme at named sites to
deliver 60,000 homes

5. Strong communities with homes and jobs
Focus on housing continues
• Direct commissioning to fast track building
affordable homes on publicly owned land
• £1.2bn to build 30,000 Starter
Homes on brownfield land in
next 5 years
• Confirmation of Housing Zone
capacity funding

6. Manor Kingsway, Derby
MAKING IT HAPPEN IN DERBY

7. Strong communities with homes and jobs
HCA investment in Derby
• 2011-16 Affordable Housing Programme helped to
build 410 homes in Derby City with an investment of
£7.6m
• Land Programmes have delivered 338 starts on site
for open market homes with 186 completions to date,
levering in £3.8m of HCA investment, and utilising
HCA land
• Over 3,700 sqm employment floorspace created

8. Strong communities with homes and jobs
Going forward – HCA’s land role
• Key land role in bringing forward residential
development on HCA land
• Dispose of public sector land for
government departments
• Add value to surplus sites with development
potential
• Speeding up sale to help increase housing supply

9. Strong communities with homes and jobs
Shared ownership
• Following Spending Review current
Affordable Homes Programme open
principally for shared ownership
• More details of 2016-21
Programme to follow

10. Strong communities with homes and jobs
Starter Homes
• Enabling house building on brownfield sites
• Clearance, remediation, demolition and site investigations
• Support through Housing & Planning Bill reforms
• First wave of Starter Homes
• £36m pilot fund to be used by March
• £28m of this being used to acquire
and de-risk brownfield sites
• Remaining £8m for local authorities
• Includes 6 Midlands LAs

11. Strong communities with homes and jobs
Continued commitment to Derby
• Work with Derby partners to deliver priority sites
and support the Housing Zone
• Strategic alignment of current and future HCA
programmes
• Access to HCA consultancy panels and
Developer Partner Panel
• Act as ‘critical friend’ in continuing devolution
discussions

12. QUESTIONS
Ridgeway Road, Stoke on Trent
r Village, TelfordCastleward, Derby