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Registered Providers Presentation - Guinness
Meeting: 18/11/2014 - Housing and Major Projects Policy Development and Scrutiny Panel (Item 47)
Registered Providers Presentation - Knightstone
Representatives from Knightstone will deliver a presentation to the Panel on their current and future development plans.
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Minutes:
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.
The Chair asked if they ... view the full minutes text for item 47
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