One of our key objectives is to deliver sites for new homes for first-time buyers, not necessarily social housing. BLAC has recently appointed Cluttons to market a site for 14 two and thee bedroom homes in Lydd. BLAC is willing to consider flexible payment terms for the land, to enable a private sector developer to deliver these homes to the first-time buyer market (subject to contract terms etc.).BLAC bought from St Johns Ambulance, and subsequently achieved a
successful planning permission.
May 2010
Local Authority Partnerships:
Housing-led regeneration
Over the next five years BLAC will become one of the South East’s leading Public Private Partnerships (PPP), working in locally driven regeneration programmes, working as the ‘Developer Contractor’, taking a project from conception to completion.
Please see dedicated page within our website: Joint Ventures.
May 2010
BLAC awarded ‘Investment Partner’ status by HCA
The Brownfield Land Assembly Company will be one of the smallest, if not the smallest, private company to secure IP status (although there are still some procedural conditions to be satisfied).
The Single Conversation is the HCA’s important initiative on all aspects of housing and regeneration at a Local Authority level. BLAC is seen by the HCA as a prospective regeneration partner to the Single Conversation Local Investment Plan, drawing down grant-aid directly into Project/Programme Agreements within the Local Strategic Partnership.
This is a huge success for BLAC, a key stepping stone to the company’s innovative future as a delivery partner to Local Authorities in the exciting new political and economic environment that we are now in.
May 2010
A not-for-profit (NPO) company limited by guarantee
An NPO is a private company that supports the ‘public interest’ without any commercial or monetary profit, and does not distribute a dividend. Rather than shareholders (i.e owners), the company has Members, and is controlled by a Board of Directors. All of the Directors of BLAC work for the Member companies.
Where a surplus is made, this is ‘recycled’ within the business, for the benefit of future schemes.
Maidstone
Planning permission achieved for 12 one bedroom flats over three storeys with associated parking and landscaping. Design standards include HQI’s, Lifetime Homes, Building for Life to Sustainable Homes Level 3. Works to commence second quarter 2010.
BLAC partners on this project: Hyde Housing, Kent County Council
(Supporting People), Maidstone Borough Council, MCCH Society Ltd.
Deal
Planning permission achieved in November 2009 for 16 two and three bedroom houses on the site of a former 40 bed-sit warden assisted housing scheme. This is a typical use of a brownfield site, in partnership with HCA, SEEDA and Dover District Council.
BLAC was formed in response to the market’s needs for the specialist skills that we bring to difficult and complex sites across the South East.
January 2010
Regeneration in a downturn: What needs to change?
Paul Hackett, Director of The Smith Institute, offers a unique perspective of the world of regeneration, a world that he says ‘has been turned upside down’ by the credit crunch. He believes that the prospects for regeneration remain ‘uncertain at best’’, and that the pressures on regeneration will become more intense in the coming months and years.
The Institute confirms that the one ‘silver lining’ to come out of the credit crunch will be ‘the growth in longer term relationships between the public sector and committed long-term developers’’. The Brownfield Land Assembly Company (BLAC) works in partnership with the public sector, and is now doing everything possible to prepare for the upturn, through financial innovation and creative thinking now.
BLAC is clear in its long term vision. The future for us is partnerships at a local level. If you would like to discuss how we hope to do this, please e-mail: info@brownfieldlandassembly.co.uk
January 2010
