Issue - meetings

Representatives from Knightstone will deliver a presentation to the Panel on their current and future development plans.

Mike Day, Director of Development & Home Ownership gave a presentation to the Panel on behalf of Knightstone. A copy of the presentation will be attached as an appendix to these minutes, a summary is set out below.

Knightstone Housing Association

·  Founded in 1975 - Heartland is now redefined as West of England and Somerset

·  12,000 homes in management – general rented, supported housing, low cost home ownership, open market housing for sale (Arc Homes)

·  Developer of new homes – 300 to 400 a year

·  £65 million turnover – 420 staff, 23,000 residents, 365 communities and neighbourhoods

Our Housing in B&NES

Second largest landlord in BANES behind Curo

·  General Needs : 654 homes

·  Supported Housing : 143 homes

·  Leaseholders : 84 homes

·  Service Charge Only : 76 homes

·  Total : 957 homes

(149 homes acquired from Spectrum Housing group in 2013)

City Centre Georgian Properties / New build estates and one off purchases.

Current Developments in B&NES

·  Alcan site in Midsomer Norton– 59 homes

·  Charlton Road Keynsham – 2 homes

·  Old Lane Farmborough – 4 homes

·  Bidding for: County Infants School, Radstock -20 homes

Supported Housing in B&NES

Rockhall House, The Paddocks and the Orchard

·  48 units of sheltered and extra care provision working closely with Sirona Care

·  Invested £1.5 million in the schemes last year

Pennard Court

·  35 unit mixed scheme for people with sensory impairment   and people with learning difficulties working closely with Action for Hearing Loss and Freeways

Various properties in Bath, Keynsham and Paulton

·  Working closely with Developing Health and Independence,  Dimensions, LIFE

Individual and Community Empowerment Investor

·  Because our purpose – creating better futures together – means more than being a great landlord, building new homes etc

·  We offer a hand up not a hand out and we help people and communities find their own solutions by working in partnership with us. A something for something deal – the ‘together’

Individual Empowerment

·  Support customers on a 1-1 basis throughout BANES to help sustain their tenancy

·  Troubled families initiative in Bath

Community Empowerment

·  Delivering Children’s play ranger activities – Newton Road, Twerton and Kaynton Mead

·  Community clean-up days

·  Door knock consultations

·  Clean Slate – debt , employment and personnel planning support

·  Combe Down Digital Inclusion Programme

Future Aspirations for B&NES

·  Develop more Homes at least 30 to 50 a year

·  Invest in our existing stock – new Asset Management Strategy

·  Rationalise some of our very expensive to maintain and live-in central Bath properties

·  Further invest in our communities and build capacity

What the Council can further do to assist us?

·  Resolve corporate tensions between wanting best value for land/properties and the provision of affordable housing.

    e.g. Living over the Shop Properties in central Bath

·  Speedier decisions on property disposals

·  Make more council land available for affordable housing.

·  Intervene on Section 106 bidding wars between RPs.

·  Assist where possible on Central Bath listed building planning restrictions on affordable housing.

·  Further assistance on rural exception sites where possible.

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