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Ards and North Down Housing and Investment Plan Update 2017 Ards and North Down Housing Investment Plan Annual Update 2017 Geography of Ards and North Down Borough Council Ards and North Down Borough Council is divided into seven district electoral areas Contents Foreword 3 Introduction 5 Vision 5 HIP themes and outcomes 5 The HIP and the Community Plan 6 The HIP and the Local Development Plan 6 Context 7 Strategic Context 7 Local Context 11 Update on resources/budget 13 Progress Report 13 Theme One: Identify and meet housing need and demand 15 Theme Two: Improving people’s homes 23 Theme Three: Transforming people’s lives 27 Theme Four: Enabling sustainable neighbourhoods 31 Theme Five: Delivering quality services 37 Appendices 39 Appendix 1: Community Planning Themes and Outcomes 39 Appendix 2: Social Housing Need by settlement 2016/21 40 Appendix 3: Social Housing Development Programme 41 Appendix 4: Maintenance and Grants programme 44 Appendix 5: Management Team contact details 47 Appendix 6: Glossary 48 This document is available in alternative formats. Contact: Land and Regeneration (Housing Analytics), The Housing Centre, 2 Adelaide Street, Belfast BT2 8PB Tel: 03448 920 900 Fax: (028) 9031 8775 Textphone: 0845 6504381 Email: [email protected] www.nihe.gov.uk All mapping material within the document is crown copyright and is reproduced with permission of Land and Property Services under delegated authority from the Controller of Her Majesty’s Stationary Office, © Crown copyright and Database rights NIMA ES&LA209.3. 1 Ards and North Down Housing Investment Plan Annual Update 2017 37,611 86,069 applicants were on the housing waiting homes managed by the Housing Executive list at 31 March 2017 367,412 23,694 repairs were carried out at a cost of £41.9m, of these classified as being in housing stress which equates to approximately four repairs per dwelling 11,488 housing applicants were deemed to be homeless after investigation £511 £ the average amount we spent on each dwelling for repairs 4,740 approvals were issued to private households to assist with insulation and heating measures through the Affordable Warmth Scheme £107.3m invested in over 23,000 homes 1,604 new homes were started through the Housing Executive’s Social Housing 7,970 Development Programme social homes were allocated last year 19,060 £336m housing support places were provided to assist the we collected 99.87% of rent and rates on our most vulnerable citizens in our local community £ properties 1,070 Disabled Facilities Grants were approved 500 to the value of approximately £11.3m community groups worked in partnership with us through the Housing Community Network 668 mandatory Repair Grants were approved 0.31% lettable voids continue to remain low, with only 0.31% of our stock vacant £671m paid out in Housing Benefit payments £ 61,263 £ claims for Housing Benefit assessed and 510,831 changes made to existing claims £860,000 awarded through our Social Housing Enterprise (SHE) Strategy, with 99 schemes 61 supported and 25 new initiatives created jobs created or supported by SHE initiatives 2 Foreword In 2015 we published our four year relationships and also to benefit Housing Investment Plans (HIP). These from collaboration and the sharing plans identified housing-related desired of information. The HIP has been outcomes, and were intended to initiate instrumental in this process. discussions with councils and other Close working with stakeholders, and stakeholders in order to develop a shared our role in the Community Plan are key vision for the future of housing in each elements in the Housing Executive’s council area. ‘Journey to Excellence’ programme, Last year we published our first HIP which aims to deliver top class housing annual update, and now we are and regeneration solutions that meet the publishing the second annual update. needs of communities and partners, now This update reports on the progress of the and in the future. Housing Executive and other agencies to We look forward in 2017 to developing achieve the intended outcomes, and on further our relationships with councils how we plan to deliver housing ambitions and other stakeholders through the over the remaining two years of the HIP, various planning and Community and the longer term. Planning processes to build lasting In 2015, new powers were given to housing solutions that benefit the local councils, including responsibility whole community. for planning and a duty to produce a Community Plan. The Housing Executive, as a statutory partner in planning and Community Planning, has engaged with the new Local Development Plan (LDP) and Community Planning teams, other statutory partners and community representatives. Joint working throughout the last Professor Peter Roberts year has enabled us to develop strong Interim Chair 3 Ards and North Down Housing Investment Plan Annual Update 2017 4 Introduction In 2015, the Housing Executive The annual update retains the HIP Themes and Outcomes published the Ards and North Down framework based around five themes and Housing Investment Plan (HIP) 2015-19, associated outcomes. Detailed information THEME ONE which aims to provide a long term and of proposals is set out in the Appendices. Identify and meet housing need ambitious vision for the development All statistics in this document refer to the and demand of housing. This is the second annual Ards and North Down Borough Council 1. Identify new housing update which records progress of unless otherwise stated. requirements. actions set out in the HIP for 2015-19, HIP update 2016-17, and details new 2. Increase the supply of affordable proposals for 2017-19. The annual Vision renting to meet the needs of communities. update should be read in conjunction The housing sector throughout Northern with the HIP 2015-19. Ireland faces a number of challenges 3. Assist home ownership. This annual update will not only show in the current economic climate but is THEME TWO how the actions contribute to achieving committed to working in a way that Improving people’s homes the HIP outcomes but also how they can goes beyond a simple ‘bricks and mortar’ 4. Improve the quality of the housing support the delivery of the emerging approach. The housing vision for Ards stock. Ards and North Down Community Plan and North Down is one where: outcomes. 5. Develop low carbon homes and reduce fuel poverty. The HIP sets out a strategic direction “housing plays its part in for housing across all tenures, both new creating a peaceful, inclusive, THEME THREE and existing. Proposals detailed within Transforming people’s lives prosperous and fair society…” this annual update seek to achieve this 6. Provide suitable accommodation by promoting development, improving This vision for Ards and North and support services for health and wellbeing, reducing vulnerable residents. inequality, and by creating more Down seeks to deliver sustainable cohesive, safe, vibrant and successful communities, living in dwellings of 7. Homelessness is prevented or is places for all. a decent standard and in sufficient addressed effectively. numbers to meet local needs in both THEME FOUR Since the publication of the HIP, the urban and rural areas. Housing Executive, as a statutory Enabling sustainable Community Planning and Local neighbourhoods Development Plan (LDP) partner, has HIP Themes and Outcomes 8. Regenerate neighbourhoods. welcomed the opportunity to work Success for housing providers with the Council and stakeholders to 9. Create safer and cohesive necessitates measuring the effect of incorporate and embed the HIP vision communities. interventions therefore, under each of and outcomes within Community THEME FIVE the five themes, a number of outcomes Planning and LDP processes. Delivering Quality Services have been identified. With limited and reduced public 10. Deliver better services. resources, the partnership approach, which the Community Plan facilitates, will become increasingly important to deliver good quality services and housing solutions for local communities. 5 Ards and North Down Housing Investment Plan Annual Update 2017 The HIP and the Community Plan The HIP and the Local Development Plan Ards and North Down’s Strategic Community Planning Partnership have The Ards and North Down Local been preparing a Community Plan. Development Plan (LDP) will replace the corresponding parts of the Belfast The Big Plan is ambitious and takes an Metropolitan Area Plan 2015 (North all-inclusive approach to achieving five Down District) and the Ards and Down main outcomes for Ards and North Down Area Plan 2015 (Ards District). by 2032. The final plan was published in April 2017 and leads into delivery plans The LDP will influence housing The Big Plan focusing on the five main outcomes development in Ards and North Down under the themes of environmental, Borough Council for 15 years. It will be social and economic wellbeing. A review the main vehicle for assessing future date of April 2019 has been set when a housing land requirements. progress report will be published. The Local Government Act (NI) 2014 Community Planning Outcomes Following extensive consultation with introduced a statutory link between the community and Community Plan the Councils Community Plan and the All people in Ards and North Down partners, the adjacent outcomes were LDP. It is therefore important that the 1. Fulfil their lifelong potential. agreed. Community Plan and HIP themes and outcomes be taken into account in the Housing has a key role in this process 2. Enjoy good health and wellbeing. preparation of the LDP. and can contribute to achieving many 3. Live in communities where they of these outcomes. Housing can have The Statement of Community are respected, are safe and feel a positive effect on lifelong potential, Involvement is issued in draft, public secure. health and wellbeing, community safety, consultation about the draft statement 4. Benefit from a prosperous economy. community cohesion, economic growth closed in the summer of 2016.
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