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SUMMER 2017 Our quarterly round-up

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2 Policy & Funding News 8 Telecare Update 2 New APPG Inquiry - Rural HAPPI 8 Research Round-up 3 Market News 9 Housing LIN Regional 3 2017 HAPPI Awards Highlights 4 EAC Older People Housing Awards • English regions 4 New Housing LIN Resources • Wales 5 Other Useful Resources 13 Housing LIN Regional • Housing and ageing Meetings • Housing and learning disability 13 Other Events Supported • Health and social care by the Housing LIN • Housing and dementia Protheroe House, Haringey • Safeguarding & MCA Winner of the most innovative supported/sheltered scheme at the Housing Innovation Awards

Grenfell Tower - it affects us all Our thoughts go to all those who lost loved ones in the Grenfell Tower fire and everyone affected by last month’s tragedy. Please find a statement from the National Fire Chiefs Council (NFCC) at: https://goo.gl/xVHxKc In May, the NFCC also launched its Specialised Housing Guidance. The Housing LIN was a member of the High Risk Accommodation Working Group and the resultant guidance provides recommendations designed to protect the estimated three quarters of a million residents living in specialised housing from fire, including the use of external cladding. The guidance sits alongside the existing Local Government Association’s guide - Fire Safety in Purpose Built Blocks of Flats and may assist in identifying premises that have shortcomings in their fire precautions. Download from our dedicated page at: https://goo.gl/tRGoyv In what we now know to be challenging times for the sector we need to ensure the safety of residents is paramount.

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Tackling unfair practices in the leasehold POLICY & FUNDING NEWS market A selection of key documents and announcements DCLG have issued this we have covered in our weekly bulletin over the last consultation which looks at a few months range of measures to tackle unfair and unreasonable abuses of Housing LIN response to the 2017 CLG Select leasehold; in particular, the sale Committee inquiry of new leasehold houses and The Housing Learning and Improvement Network onerous ground rents. Paragraph and Elderly Accommodation Counsel submission 3.4 recognises the implications for recognises the importance of older people’s leasehold properties in retirement housing development to the vital wider housing villages. growth programme and the health and adult care Deadline for completing the online survey at: integration agenda. Read our submission at: https://goo.gl/CXKaPt is 19 September 2017. https://goo.gl/8u5RvR To view the consultation, go to: Future of Supported Housing Select https://goo.gl/Wv52CB Committees’ report The Work and Pension and Community and Local Government Committees’ report considers the LORD BEST ANNOUNCES future of supported housing with some hard-hitting observations. NEW APPG HAPPI INQUIRY https://goo.gl/dc4RWG Older rural people suffer from the lack of affordable housing as much as a lack of access to social care, House of Commons briefing poor public transport and slow or non-existent paper - Paying for supported broadband. In response, this week, the All-Party housing Parliamentary Group (APPG) for Housing and Care This paper explains the for Older People launched an inquiry into housing Government’s proposals and for older people in rural communities. references responses from the Speaking at the CLA’s rural housing summit, to sector. coincide with Rural Housing Week 2017, Lord Best https://goo.gl/A7SSyS (co-chair of the APPG) announced the new inquiry, Rural Housing for an Ageing Population: Policy Better Care Fund: Disabled Initiatives or HAPPI 4. The Housing LIN’s Jeremy Facilities Grant 2017/18 allocations for local Porteus, will be the Inquiry Secretary. authorities announced https://goo.gl/Jt16b4 The increased funding allocations specifically for And to coincide with Disabled Facilities Grants (DFG) in 2017-18 have Rural Housing Week been announced (total £431million compared with 2017, this report from £394m in 2016-17). the Country Land & https://goo.gl/GNhr7W Business Association (CLA) offers new insight HAA’s response to DCLG’s into the diverse role Housing White Paper - Fixing landowners play in the our broken housing market rural housing market, The focus of this submission from small landlords with one or two properties by the H&A Alliance concerns to larger traditional estates with large lettings the housing and planning portfolios and dedicated property management implications of unprecedented teams, including meet the needs of older people in demographic change. rural communities. https://goo.gl/owFBjW https://goo.gl/5knxmW

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The Moorfield Audley MARKET NEWS Real Estate Fund has A selection of key market news items we have raised an additional £85 covered in our weekly bulleting over the last few million for investment in retirement housing, taking months its funds available for investment to around £700 million. Places for People and A study by the International Octopus Healthcare launch Longevity Centre-UK, new £200m retirement ‘Lengthening the Ladder: The business - Liberty - to give future of mortgage borrowing in Britain’s ageing population freedom of choice and older age’, predicts that borrowing tackle chronic undersupply of housing. into older age is likely to move And, latest research from Strutt & Parker and from niche to mainstream within Octopus Healthcare reveals four key insights the next decade; with the amount into retirement accommodation in their ‘Platinum of mortgage debt held by over 65s Generation’ report. likely to nearly double to £39.9 https://goo.gl/iozd7E billion by 2030. With a growing interest in PRS, around one in every https://goo.gl/6PdsWv 12 private rental sector tenants is a pensioner report a lettings index has found. https://goo.gl/YktmYg 2017 HAPPI AWARDS And check out Knight Frank’s research on Two schemes have been recognised by judges at Multihousing 2017: PRS Research. It suggests the annual Housing Design Awards as best in class growth in baby-boomer PRS. for this year’s HAPPI awards held at the Institute of https://goo.gl/FKkzYG Engineering and Technology on Monday evening A new residential research report this month. by Savills puts the spotlight on Presented by how the UK housing market Housing LIN’s Jeremy is failing to meet the needs of Porteus, The Vincent thousands of older householders, development won the so-called squeezed middle the HAPPI project who cannot afford to downsize award for the mix into an open market retirement of 65 one, two and property. The Vincent development, Redland three-bedroomed https://goo.gl/Fhrtxv apartments in And, this government briefing paper looks at the Redland, Bristol. Designed by Allford Hall demographics of households in owner-occupied, Monaghan Morris, the PegasusLife scheme privately rented and social rented housing over the promises to become a landmark on the Bristol last twenty years. city-scape. https://goo.gl/bkkmR5 The other winning scheme was New research undertaken Willow Barns by PRP architects for the Council of Mortgage in Blurton, Stoke-on-Trent. The Lenders in conjunction with the first of three scheme extra care Building Societies Association schemes built under a DCLG (BSA) says that it is vital PFI contract with the Sapphire to adopt a more joined up Group (Your Housing Group, Willow Barns, Blurton approach to delivering advice Kajima Partnerships and Eric to older borrowers. Wright Construction), this development with 45 two https://goo.gl/82cF3Y bed and 30 bed apartments ticked all the judges boxes for this completed scheme.

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The Lightbulb Project: Switched on to EAC HOUSING FOR OLDER integration in Leicestershire PEOPLE AWARDS - This ‘invest to save’ project brings together HOUSING LIN WINNER County and District The 32 winners, selected Councils and other by residents, were local partners in Leicestershire to help people stay announced at the Awards safe and keep well in their homes for as long as celebrated at Edgbaston possible. It includes GPs and other health/care Cricket Ground in May. professionals; for example, those in integrated Well done to James locality teams, and relies on early at home Beattie House, Glyn assessment process that triages housing issues at Anwen and Barnes Wallis Representatives from Gold key points of entry, delivered through a ‘hub and Court for their Gold, Silver winning James Beattie House spoke’ model with an integrated Locality Lightbulb and Bronze Housing LIN Team in each District Council. awards respectively. More at: https://goo.gl/UuRbFD https://goo.gl/MGeJqj

NEW HOUSING LIN RESOURCES NEW REPORTS / BRIEFINGS Keeping you informed of a selection of Housing LIN A whole system approach to meeting housing, resources published since April 2017. health and wellbeing outcomes for our older populations in North West England NEW VIEWPOINTS The Housing LIN North West Leadership Set commissioned Planning a HAPPI family this vision document to assess the gap in the likely supply and Hot on the heels of the Housing White Paper, this demand for housing with care Housing LIN Viewpoint 86 offers a planner’s eye in the region by 2030. It sets view of how the planning system could contribute out challenges – and hopes – to the meeting of genuine housing needs in an around older people’s housing efficient and timely way. https://goo.gl/it2Mjf in the region. https://goo.gl/w8iVTg NEW CASE STUDIES Top tips for strategic estates planning and extra care housing A shared understanding: Localising the integration This practice briefing from the Housing LIN of housing and health in provides practical information, examples and tips Nottingham through a on how NHS estate teams can make best use of / Memorandum of Understanding dispose of surplus NHS land or buildings to develop extra care housing to meet local Sustainability This Housing LIN Case Study Transformation Plan (STP) priorities. 134 sets out the journey taken https://goo.gl/LgpoRC by Nottingham City to embed housing as the third vertex of local health and social care integration through the development of a local Memorandum of NEW HOUSING LIN BLOGS Understanding. https://goo.gl/j4C3iC In recent months, we have published a number of Cornwall Hospital Discharge Partnership Project thought-provoking blogs on a wide range of housing This Housing LIN Case Study 133 describes a and housing related health, care and/or support county-wide multi-agency approach to establish issues. They can all be found at: a Homeless Discharge project in Cornwall http://www.housinglin.org.uk/blogs initially funded by an award of £65,000 from the Department of Health. https://goo.gl/mMBZRD

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OTHER USEFUL Ageing Well: A Housing Manifesto 2017 This Manifesto has been PUBLICATIONS / RESOURCES produced by the Older People’s Housing Champions, a national HOUSING AND AGEING network of older activists who support action by older people’s Ideas for Change 2017: Extra Care Housing in groups to improve housing and Lincolnshire related services for an ageing population across England. This report captures the findings of a student https://goo.gl/22aavS architects’ competition at the University of Lincoln that looked into the vision of innovative solutions for Ageing in the UK Now Extra Care Housing to meet the County Council’s strategy. https://goo.gl/Tmk1wv This short BJF report is an opening review of areas where organisations interested in the field of The Social Value of Sheltered Housing ageing can make a significant impact, and assist in understanding where future initiatives might be This briefing paper by Demos brings together all the focused. https://goo.gl/KMRWfo qualitative data relating to the savings generated to health and social care services. End of life care in a sheltered housing scheme https://goo.gl/pZnzxQ This blog details the redevelopment of a sheltered NHF Update on the future funding of supported housing scheme in Norwich to provide end of life housing care and tenancies for former residents of a care home, many of whom were former street sleepers. Summary of NHF’s activities on supported housing, https://goo.gl/pKC37n what they will be doing until the Green Paper is published and how you can support their work to Why young people are renting rooms in a ensure that they make a strong, united case for Helsinki care home supported housing. https://goo.gl/3Qfi9i In return for a cheap rent, Finnish 18 to 25-year- olds are befriending older people in a state-run Humanitas Retirement care home and helping provide a range of social Home - Jurrien activities. https://goo.gl/kMUWuR Mentink’s story Accessible housing policy update The Age of No Retirement movement This Habinteg briefing highlights shares a story about the significant accessible Photo courtesy of Jurrien Mentink ‘Humanitas’, an housing deficit, seeks to intergenerational inform and update housing Retirement Home where students live wall to wall professionals about policy with its older residents. developments that may affect https://goo.gl/CRC6ct them, and makes the case for including accessibility amongst Centre for Ageing Better’s General Election 2017 their top priorities. manifesto: Priority actions for better later lives https://goo.gl/oYPQYS In this manifesto CAB proposes a three point plan Design Council blog: Time To Say It Out Loud: for better later lives: Our Society Is Writing Off Ageing 1. Age-friendly places Sarah Weir OBE, Chief Exec of Design Council 2. Age-friendly economy asks: What do you want to be when you’re older? 3. Healthy ageing A common question asked of children. But why are we not asking people over 50 the same question? https://goo.gl/4kZ2tf https://goo.gl/xHV16s

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Take-up on downsize: how to improve housing Local support for people with a learning mobility in social housing disability This Family Mosaic research makes bold This House of Commons Public Accounts recommendations on how we should prioritise Committee paper reports on progress made to downsizers for our vacant homes, in order to help move people with a learning disability out of mental more people into social housing, including mention health hospitals and into the community. of housing for older people. https://goo.gl/QG2x52 https://goo.gl/D68vZw HEALTH & SOCIAL CARE HOUSING AND LEARNING DISABILITY Sustainability and Transformation Plans: In recent months, HACT and the Housing LIN Analysis of extent to which housing & ageing have been working with NHS England and a are mentioned in STPs select number of localities to help them explore A survey by Care & Repair England reveals that how they might further develop their work within the majority of Sustainability and Transformation the Transforming Care Partnerships (TCP) and, in Plans (STPs) include very few references to older particular, how they could help the TCPs to work people, even though they are the majority users of more closely with housing providers. As part of the the NHS, nor do they identify housing as a potential programme, the Housing LIN has published an contributor to NHS transformation. The Briefing online portal that provides a comprehensive, free- argues that small, practical housing interventions to-use, ‘e-knowledge can play a critical role in this transformation, hub’ to enable TCPs particularly with regard to older patients, the vast and their housing majority of whom live in mainstream housing. and care partners https://goo.gl/8PMvGh access latest policy, research and practice JRF Better Life Programme on housing and care matters for people with 2014 saw the completion of JRF’s £1.5 million five- a learning disability. year programme called A Better Life. Its aim was View at: https://goo.gl/5N4AR6 to explore what can help older people with high support needs to improve their quality of life (and In addition, the Housing LIN has produced a video, what ‘quality of life’ means for them) now and in the made with Hayley Burwood, Chair of Opening future. We now host this work on our site. Doors in Norfolk that captures her housing and care https://goo.gl/Yr6Po3 circumstances. She powerfully demonstrates the need to listen to people with a learning disability NHS Alliance: A Manifesto for Health Creation about their independent living aspirations as they are the ‘experts by experience’. View at: Health creation is the enhancement in health https://goo.gl/VsDHep and wellbeing that occurs when individuals and communities achieve a sense of purpose, hope, Housing Choices Discussion mastery and control over their own lives and Paper 4: Policy and Practice immediate environment. Recommendations https://goo.gl/2CtgZ8 This is the fourth and final Our ups and downs: growing up and getting on paper in NDTI’s Housing with the Rotherhithe Babes Choices Discussion Paper Series. It seeks to draw policy The Rotherhithe Babes are one group of great older and practice recommendations women who have enjoyed each other’s company from the discussion and debate over many decades. They talk with great humour around the previous papers. about the changes they have seen in their world https://goo.gl/S6JW1e and their local area over their lifetimes. https://goo.gl/vc9uwC

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Don’t miss the link: how housing supports ‘What Works’ in dementia training and health targets, saves money and promotes education?: An evaluation better care Professor Claire Surr of Leeds Beckett University This blog by Care & Repair England Chief is leading a study to identify the ingredients for Executive Sue Adams commends the new NHS effective education/training for the dementia England Quick Guide on Health and Housing and workforce. points to the links between housing and wellbeing. https://goo.gl/RzjS4o https://www.england.nhs.uk/blog/sue-adams/ The Architecture of Care: A New Approach High impact change model: Managing transfers This Report demonstrates that residential dementia of care between hospital and home care building design, when fully integrated This self-assessment tool for local health and care with successful new models of care, and new systems from the LGA offers a practical approach approaches to ageing, actively supports life to supporting local health and care systems to affirming and affordable centres of care excellence. manage patient flow and timely hospital discharge. Having received a Winston https://goo.gl/gSDNp2 Churchill Memorial Trust travelling fellowship, architect Why the Dilnot cap is not the answer to the William McMorran, undertook social care funding crisis comparative research in Australia, The CHPI research team write that social care Canada and Holland to capture requires a significant injection of public funds to the latest thinking in effective move from being a residual public service to one care for people living with a which enhances the lives of older people. Until dementia, to personally witness then, the crisis will continue to worsen. this in practice and set out how to https://goo.gl/y7GQME apply that evidence base to devise a possible new model of care architecture in the UK. He suggests Make It Your Decision that a new model must fully integrate care and the environment, bringing a step change in benefit Compassion for Dying have to residents and staff, and, while demonstrating produced a new website, an manifest sustainable cost efficiencies. animation and several resources https://goo.gl/Hn2658 to encourage members of the public to plan ahead for their treatment and care to ensure that HOUSING & SAFEGUARDING / MCA what matters to them is known about. Mental Capacity Law and Policy: Vulnerable https://goo.gl/JTdh8w Adults Bill Two contrasting posts outline proposals for a HOUSING & DEMENTIA Vulnerable Adults Bill, and potential issues with the proposed legislation. Dementia Services Development Centre and • Vulnerable Adults Bill – help wanted Space Group launch new IRIDIS dementia design app • Vulnerable adults bill risks creating more problems than protections? A team from the University of Stirling’s world- renowned Dementia Services Development Centre The impact of housing problems on mental (DSDC) has been working with construction experts health at Space Group to design the app, which assesses how suitable an environment is for older people and Shelter in partnership with the research agency, particularly those with dementia. ComRes, explored the relationship between https://goo.gl/BJN93R housing and mental health through a two-stage research project in early 2017. https://goo.gl/wp7v6r

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Design Council article: Designing mental health Guinness Care embraces digital for flagship into cities: the next frontier for urban design extra care development This article is part of the Creating Healthy Places Guinness Care announced programme, it explains the reasons that city- that it will deploy its first dwellers are at greater risk of mental health digital care solution from problems and shows how urban design can support Appello in its flagship development in Devon. better mental health. The digital care solution will be installed across https://goo.gl/PfFnMa the new development of sixty contemporary extra care apartments. Residents will benefit from almost The impact of housing on health and wellbeing instantaneous connection to an alarm receiving The theme of this RiPFA Research and Policy centre, and will be able to take advantage of room update is the impact of housing on health and to room calling which can be wellbeing, including papers that discuss: video enabled to help support social inclusion. • A review of housing and wellbeing https://goo.gl/hfnTLD • Security of tenure in social housing • Roma communities, housing and Brexit Social Isolation and Loneliness in the UK Report: With a focus on the use of technology • Fuel poverty and disability to tackle these conditions https://goo.gl/yDvBp7 This report by The Internet of Things UK aims to provide an overview of the social isolation and Working with Statutory loneliness landscape in the UK, taking into account Mental Health Services: the factors that contribute to the development of the A guide for housing and conditions associated with isolation and loneliness. homelessness staff https://goo.gl/Vt8FdC This Enabling Assessment Service London (EASL) Technology in housing helping ‘ease NHS beds document is for staff working crisis’ in homelessness and housing Technology installed in the home to help elderly services who work with people people live independently is being introduced to with mental health problems. ease the growing problem of bed-blocking. https://goo.gl/ur4bh5 https://goo.gl/k1cnXY

And if you haven’t already done so, check out our ‘Going Digital’ pages on technology enabled GOING DIGITAL / housing. TELECARE UPDATE For latest information on telecare, check out our dedicated newsletters at: RESEARCH ROUND-UP www.telecarelin.org.uk/News ARCC synthesis of research Nesta report on Connected findings on ageing and mobility Councils: A digital Vision of in the built environment Local Government in 2025 As global population is booming and more people This report examines how are living longer, ARCC asks: Are you interested digital technologies could help in improved health and wellbeing for our ageing councils save money, foster society? local economic growth and https://goo.gl/6vzfGR deliver better outcomes for local Also, see Tanya Wilkins recent guest blog at: residents and communities. https://goo.gl/2mcXbk https://goo.gl/6xDng3

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And, academics from the universities of Bristol, A second scheme comprising 60 apartments in Kent and Worcester have published a paper Walton on the Naze is due to open this summer. studying the prospects for outcomes-based Work also recently started on site at a third scheme commissioning of social care in extra care housing. of 73 apartments in Saffron Walden. More at: https://goo.gl/xMs5MY In Thurrock, Bruyns Court has won the RIBA East award in recognition of its architectural excellence and contribution to society. The housing HOUSING LIN REGIONAL development provides 25 one and two-bedroom affordable rented homes for people over 55. The HIGHLIGHTS scheme was completed in December 2015 and was supported by £1.2m grant funding from the Homes We are delighted to announce and Communities Agency. It that Clare Skidmore will be has been designed to HAPPI joining us from 31 July as principles (Housing the Strategic Lead: Influencing and Ageing Population Innovation Networks to support our national Panel), Lifetime Homes and influencing activities and network Code for Sustainable Homes level 4 and is close to local programmes. Clare is well known Bruyns Court, Thurrock to the Housing LIN, having been amenities including shops, the local library and health centre. The scheme was Clare Skidmore seconded from Kent County Council to help manage the designed by Bell Phillips Architects and built out by extra care fund when we were part of Department Willmott Dixon. of Health and, more recently, involved with our In West Suffolk, partners are beginning the process London and South East regional networks whilst of setting up the first Buurtzorg Test and Learn working in various local government and CCG team in the East of England. The ‘test’ will initially roles. look to establish one team of self-managed nurses in a neighbourhood of West Suffolk. It aims to ‘test’ Eastern the Buurtzorg Business Case to assess whether The recent regional meeting in Ipswich was a great the outcomes seen in the Netherlands can be success. It was good to welcome some new faces to translated into the UK context to deliver better care the meeting. Slides are now at: https://goo.gl/Wuj9ru for clients; better working environment for staff; financial viability; and make a positive impact on The next meeting will be held at Norse Care’s rest of the local Health & Social Care System. We impressive Bowthorpe scheme near Norwich await the outcomes with interest. on November 9th. The focus of the day will be dementia and associated assistive technology with In other news, the Northstowe Healthy New a range of interesting speakers already agreeing Town have appointed Sheffield Hallam University to present. There will also be a chance to view the to undertake research and modelling work to scheme and review what makes healthy retirement support older people’s housing and care service living. More details to follow. development. The Housing LIN will be publishing a guest blog and looking to coordinate best practice On the development front, in across the country. Harwich, the first residents have moved into a new £11 And on the job front, long-standing Housing LIN million Independent Living steering group member, Claire Astbury, has moved housing scheme. Developed on from the NHF to take up a post at Luton BC. And Geoff Moore has left the Alzheimer Society. He was Rosebank Park, Harwich in partnership with Ashley House, and managed by a keen supporter of the Housing LIN and has been One Housing Group, Rosebank Park offers 70 self- replaced by Fiona Wynde. contained apartments. The scheme forms part of Lastly, we are sure that you will all want to join in Essex County Council’s £27.7million Independent thanking Sue Garwood on her retirement for her Living programme, which will help to create up to major contribution to the work of the Housing LIN 1,800 new Independent Living homes over the next both in the eastern region and developing the five years. dementia agenda.

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West Midlands Brighton & Hove Council’s Brooke Mead Extra Care ExtraCare Charitable Trust housing scheme opened has won the outstanding this month, (July) offering development of the year at homes to 45 people with CIH 2017 Housing Awards. low to moderate dementia. Brooke Mead, Brighton The award comes as https://goo.gl/SsjdXS ExtraCare opens Longbridge Longbridge Village, Village in Birmingham this Birmingham Work is well underway on GreenSquare’s summer, the fifth of five new £1.1million development of six assisted living villages across the City. apartments for people with learning disabilities in Oxford. Oxfordshire County Council is contributing Audley’s latest village, St George’s Place in £275,000 to the development cost of the housing at Edgbaston, was officially opened. It has a mix of Brasenose Driftway in east Oxford. They will open one, two and three bed apartments and cottages next spring. https://goo.gl/ziNRij offering luxury facilities including a swimming pool, library, restaurant, bar/bistro and spa, which will be Meanwhile, building work accessible to both owners and the neighbouring is also advancing well on communities. Reading Borough Council’s and A2 Dominion’s extra Accord Group’s brand new extra care scheme in care housing scheme for Coventry was officially opened on 3 July. Situated older people in Caversham. in the Tile Hill area of Coventry and consisting of 33 Onsite work at Beechwood Grove will provide one bed apartments, it is a specialist housing with Beechwood Grove 43 flats for older people when care complex for people with dementia. it opens in autumn 2018. https://goo.gl/9h9xBg Stoke-on-Trent City Council The Building Research Establishment and has approved plans for the Loughborough University have announced that they redevelopment of Queen will be building a dementia friendly show home at Elizabeth II Court in Fenton the BRE innovation park this autumn. which will see the number of flats rise from 33 to 57. Queen Elizabeth II Court, East Midlands Fenton https://goo.gl/5PNPbp The recent regional meeting And in North Solihull, there will also be a 51 unit was held at the RIBA Extra Care facility built on the Saxon Gate site. East Midlands and HDA Lastly, in Lichfield, Bromford Housing Group, the Richard Fielden Award owner of Beacon Park Village, a 135 unit retirement winning Meadow View new complex, has taken over full management of the development, an iconic new village. Radis Community Care will provide care Meadow View, Darley Dale residential care home and services. day centre in Darley Dale, on the edge of the Derbyshire Dales. South East Slides are now at: https://goo.gl/ZCgK5G The high demand for In Peterborough, Lapwing Court, a £9.1 million McCarthy and Stone’s extra care housing development from Cross Keys Cardamom Court in Housing Association has opened its doors. The Bexleyheath shows that building consists of a total of 54 one and two more such housing is bedroomed apartments. needed, the company says. Cardamom Court, Bexleyheath https://goo.gl/tQb51a South West Hampshire County Council has announced that The ExtraCare Charitable Trust’s Stoke Gifford 261 it will invest more than £70 million in extra care home retirement village in Bristol is scheduled to housing for older people, people with learning open in late 2018. https://goo.gl/izjQ1F disabilities and people with physical disabilities by 2022. https://goo.gl/6m4C8p

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Work is underway on Abbeyfield’s North West development of 80 flats in Plymouth. On the development front, Ten flats will be sold while the residents moved into the remaining 70 will be available for Belong Morris Feinmann care affordable rent. The development is village in Didsbury in June. It part of the Millbay regeneration and includes six households, each is part funded by the Homes and catering for 12 people with their Abbeyfield’s new Communities Agency and Plymouth Belong Morris Feinmann, own en-suite facilities. It also Didsbury development in City Council. Plymouth has 13 one and two bedroom https://goo.gl/SzESWm independent living apartments for rent or purchase. Residents with dementia have The development is a partnership with Morris moved into 65 self-contained Feinmann Homes Trust and residents have a range flats in a scheme developed of care needs, including some with dementia. by Alliance Homes in Worle. https://goo.gl/Aqe43r Care at the scheme, which And just as one Belong village opens, the charity includes a day care centre, has gained planning permission for another is being provided by Alliance Tamar Court, Worle one on City Road in Chester. It will also have Living Care. https://goo.gl/yZoBFh six households with 72 suites and three guest bedrooms with round-the-clock care. London https://goo.gl/9Z5EWX Congratulations to PTE The first residents architects for winning the have also moved into prestigious 2017 Housing Wythenshawe Community Design for New Grounds Housing Group’s landmark Co-Housing in Barnet, ‘Village 135’ extra care the Older Women’s Co- housing scheme. The Housing development with New Grounds Co-Housing, Village 135, Wythenshawe £20 million development, Barnet Hanover. which received £5.2 We anticipate that consultation on the London Plan million from the HCA, is made up of 135 homes for will start in Autumn. More at: https://goo.gl/6hbcFx older people with a mix of tenures. Wandsworth Council is investing in two supported https://goo.gl/S8GBiJ housing developments in the south west London And on Preston city-limits, borough. It received planning permission in Your Housing Group have December for nine supported housing council submitted plans to develop a homes in Roehampton. Work will also begin on a retirement village, including a second development involving seven one bedroom doctor’s surgery. Site plan for the new flats in Tooting this year. https://goo.gl/TECBav village in Preston Flats are available in Season (One Housing Group) North East Senior Living’s Bankhouse extra care development Regional Housing LIN members took the in Waterloo on the south bank of the Thames. opportunity to be involved in The Future Homes The landmark development has 36 one and two project which is being pioneered in Newcastle. The bedroom flats available for affordable rent and initiative is developing new housing exemplars that shared ownership for over 55s. show people the future. They will combine in one https://goo.gl/FF7KJa place innovations in flexible living, material, digital technology and zero/low energy systems to provide And finally, congratulations to supportive homes for everyone at any life-stage. Season (One Housing Group) Senior Living as Protheroe As part of the project, Professor Rose Gilroy of House in Haringey won the most Newcastle University is engaging in conversations innovative supported/sheltered with a wide range of professionals, citizens and scheme at this year’s Housing communities about their ideas for future housing Protheroe House, Innovation Award. Haringey to ensure the project can be informed by many different minds and experiences.

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At the Housing LIN meeting Yorkshire & Humber this month at Your Homes The Housing LIN held its regional meeting at Newcastle new extra care Abbeyfield’s Society scheme in Ilkley last month. All village in Walker, Newcastle, slides are at: https://goo.gl/Nq1LDo participants were able Tree Top Village, Walker to add to the feedback The ‘Redcare partnership’ has announced that received from a session with it will build 25 extra care bungalows in Brotton. community health professionals and help to further The Cliffs will be the third in a series of extra care hone the priorities when designing a future home. developments. https://goo.gl/SuPBsx

Excitingly, the project has development finance to Wales proceed meaning there is a real opportunity for any future solutions to be tested, refined and scaled up Denbighshire County Council within Newcastle; offering a real alternative to the has granted planning permission current housing offer available to older households. for an extra care scheme on the You can keep abreast of the developments via site of an old school in Denbigh. Twitter @NCLFutureHomes Middle Lane, Denbigh The scheme will include 70 one and two bedroom apartments for And lastly, on the development front, work is underway people requiring extra care or supported living and on a £10m housing and care development for a community living unit for four people who need Abbeyfield complete with fruit orchards, kitchen garden more formal care and support. and sensory area for older people in Sunderland. https://goo.gl/4FBSRi The three-storey development in Silksworth Work has started on a £10 million extra care - Abbeyfield’s first on Wearside - is ahead of housing scheme in Flint that will provide 70 schedule with a handover from building contractor, apartments for people over 60. Due to be Tyneside-based Tolent Construction, expected to completed next Spring, Llys Raddington is take place this autumn. managed by Clwyd Alyn Housing and is part of a It will provide 75 one and two bedroom flats offering town centre regeneration that will see new general independent living for older people at affordable needs social housing and a new health centre. rents, as well as additional care services via 24-hour, https://goo.gl/ytHXzz tailor made staff care. Abbeyfield is also committed to Wales and West Housing is awaiting planning involving local people with volunteering opportunities permission from Flintshire Council for an extra at the new scheme. Nationally Abbeyfieldd has over care development on the site of a former school in 4000 volunteers of all ages who give their time freely Holywell. to make sure the wider community fully involved. https://goo.gl/FQEt8n Abbeyfield has brought in leading healthcare Linc Cymru Housing architect and interiors specialist Alessandro Caruso Association, Bridgend County Architecture Interiors (ACAI) whose end user- Borough Council and the Welsh focused approach is wholly designed to improve Government have also turned to wellbeing. two former school sites where they are building two new extra Local artist Ian Potts of Eon Arts is working Ground plan for one of care schemes with a total of 45 the sites in Bridgend alongside ACAI and the two will introduce apartments in Bridgend. The distinctive themes across the scheme drawing housing will replace three care homes. on the local geography, heritage and culture. https://goo.gl/Kytkoc Abbeyfield are looking to commission Mr Potts to work post-opening alongside residents to create And on the policy front, the Welsh Government their own art pieces to personalise interior spaces is consulting on their draft Supporting People around the entrances to their own apartments. programme guidance and outcomes framework. More at: https://goo.gl/YLvTG5 Abbeyfield – which celebrated its 60th anniversary last year - is known for its ‘open door’ philosophy Lastly, Community Housing Cymru highlights and reaching out into the communities around example of recent practice among housing its 500-plus houses and homes through special associations in Wales, which benefits the mental events, activities, and other initiatives, to foster health of members of the communities in which lasting friendships and ties. they work. https://goo.gl/fGwK9L

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Scotland OTHER EVENTS SUPPORTED We Say: Our place, Our Space - The evidence on disabled people’s housing issues from BY THE HOUSING LIN Scotland’s Disabled People’s Summit Doing Dementia Design - Liverpool This report captures disabled people’s lived experiences and their contributions shared at the Liverpool – 14 - 15 September 2017 2nd Annual Disabled People’s Summit last year. A two day conference organised by Liverpool https://goo.gl/7u1SjP Dementia Action Alliance to promote the adoption of dementia-friendly principles in the design of all buildings, places and spaces, sharing latest HOUSING LIN REGIONAL researchand developments, aiming to influence public policy, professional practice, education and EVENTS training. More information at: https://goo.gl/19ssyc Check our online events page to register your attendance on a ‘first come, first serve’ basis for our forthcoming regional events: www.housinglin.org.uk/Events/ForthcomingEvents/

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