Being Innovative
with Funding
Debbie Hope Strategic Manager Housing
Growth
Being Innovative with Funding
Being Innovative with Funding
Why am I here? • To tell you about Stoke • To tell you what we have to deal with • To tell you how we are dealing with it
Being Innovative with Funding
Being Innovative with Funding
• Stoke’s industrial Heritage • Stoke housing market including housing
completions profile • Stoke house prices
Being Innovative with Funding
• Housing market build cost inflation • Sites we have delivered and the filth we have
had to deal with
Being Innovative with Funding
Barratts (former Churchill Pottery Site)
Being Innovative with Funding
Barratts • Mares tail • Knotweed • Domestic tip leeching • Railway tunnel • Demolition • Made ground
Being Innovative with Funding
Barratts (former Churchill Pottery Site)
Being Innovative with Funding
Barratts (former Churchill Pottery Site)
Being Innovative with Funding Seddons • Mineshaft • Pottery buildings • Canal wall
Being Innovative with Funding Seddons
Being Innovative with Funding
Being Innovative with Funding
Avant Homes • Potbanks • Mine working • Knotweed • Canal wall
Being Innovative with Funding
Being Innovative with Funding
Avant Homes- Johnsons wharf
Being Innovative with Funding
Solutions: • Deal structuring • Land value • Public funding for housing schemes- HiF
Being Innovative with Funding
Housing infrastructure Fund: • 9 sites • Remediation issues across all of them
including: • Ground gas, mine entries and workings,
contaminants, foundations, heritage assets and ecology
Being Innovative with Funding
HiF Sites
Being Innovative with Funding
Conclusions: • One size does not fit all • Be as flexible as you can • Transparency • Homes England role and relationship
For more information
Building Control: Visit: www.stoke.gov.uk/info/20062/building_regulations
Email: [email protected]
Call: 01782 23 2459 / 8685
Environmental Solutions