Here you will find some of the latest news and relevant information on regeneration.
BLAC
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 profits are made, these are ‘recycled’ within the business, for the benefit of future schemes. January 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 profits are made, these are ‘recycled’ within the business, for the benefit of future schemes. January 2010
Tonbridge Road
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. January 2010
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. January 2010
Intermediate Housing
BLAC works with its partners to deliver Affordable Housing to meet the full spectrum of housing needs. Affordable Housing is defined as social rented, intermediate housing and low cost market housing (owner occupied and private rented). Intermediate housing includes low-cost home ownership and ‘key worker’ housing.
BLAC believes that intermediate housing could meet the needs of many first time buyers in the future, by delivering housing for rent at below market levels, but usually above social rent levels. This provides people and families with the opportunity for ‘step purchase’ to, say, a maximum of 80% ownership.
January 2010
BLAC works with its partners to deliver Affordable Housing to meet the full spectrum of housing needs. Affordable Housing is defined as social rented, intermediate housing and low cost market housing (owner occupied and private rented). Intermediate housing includes low-cost home ownership and ‘key worker’ housing. BLAC believes that intermediate housing could meet the needs of many first time buyers in the future, by delivering housing for rent at below market levels, but usually above social rent levels. This provides people and families with the opportunity for ‘step purchase’ to, say, a maximum of 80% ownership.
January 2010
College Road
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
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
The Smith Institute
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: richardbarwick@brownfieldlandassembly.co.uk 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: richardbarwick@brownfieldlandassembly.co.uk January 2010
