Housing & Development

We explore whether a shift towards a more commercially minded approach to ensure local authorities are making best use of these assets, could yield significant benefits, reduce cost exposure and enhance the supply of TA.

It’s clear that while upper-tier authorities grapple with the challenge of Adults and Children’s social care; a critical challenge for Unitary, Districts and Boroughs is the huge weight of discharging their homelessness obligations by providing immediate emergency accommodation and temporary accommodation.  

As the UK grapples with increasing pressures in the housing market, the notion of delivering ‘Truly Affordable Housing’ presents an opportunity to rebalance and optimise housing provision to better meet local needs…

Vestega – a 31ten-backed initiative – is a company using data innovation to optimise land and property investments.

Local government are ideally placed to build their economic future and engage their communities through collaboration. Warwickshire County Council has done just that over a series of recent projects that 31ten have supported on.

We have worked on a number of delivery and partnership arrangements over the last 15 years and have seen a lot of successful arrangements as well as a fair share that have experienced difficulties. So how do you develop arrangements that deliver on what they promise and stand the test of time?

Our Director, Gary O’Connell, and Consultant, Ivan Brodrick, consider the impact of COVID-19 on the housing market by looking at historic pandemics and economic recessions.

We have been working with local authorities that want to bring a commitment to deliver truly affordable housing into their Housing Strategy. But what does ‘truly affordable housing’ mean?

The lifting of the housing revenue account debt cap will only boost housing numbers effectively if councils combine the new flexibility with existing models such as housing companies.

Andy Pack tells Room 151 his views on the Government’s announcement to scrap the HRA cap.