Glasgow's Affordable Housing Supply Programme
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Front cover: Commonwealth Games Athletes’ Village 2 GLASGOW’S AFFORDABLE HOUSING SUPPLY PROGRAMME QUALITY, INNOVATION & SUSTAINABILITY 13 Performance Review 2013/14 Table 13 – SAP Ratings Featured Projects – 2014 Commonwealth Games Athletes’ Village CONTENTS PAGE NO Centurian Way INTRODUCTION 2 Holmlea Court HOUSING UNITS 4 Glasgow’s AHSP Project Awards Table 1 – Unit Approvals by Housing Investment Area POST COMPLETION REVIEWS 24 Table 2 – New Build Unit Approvals by Tenure TRANSFORMATIONAL REGENERATION AREAS Table 3 – Unit Approvals by Grant Type (TRAs) 25 Table 4 – Unit Targets and Approvals by Housing Maryhill Investment Area – Wheelchair Housing Gallowgate Table 5 – Unit Targets and Laurieston Approvals by Housing Investment Area North Toryglen – Larger Family Homes Pollokshaws Table 6 – Unit Targets and Completions by Grant Type Sighthill APPENDIX 1A – MAP OF UNIT APPROVALS 30 EXPENDITURE 8 APPENDIX 1B – MAP OF UNIT COMPLETIONS 31 Table 7 – Expenditure by Housing Investment Area Table 8 – Expenditure by Grant Type APPENDIX 2 –FUNDING BY HOUSING 32 Medical Adaptations (Stage 3) ASSOCIATION DEVELOPMENT COSTS, RENTS & GRANT 10 Table 1 – Housing Association GPTs and Out-turns LEVELS – Mainstream Programme Table 2 – Housing Association GPTs and Out-turns Table 9 – Development and Works Costs – LSVT Programme Table 10 – Housing Association Rents in Tender Table 3 – Housing Association GPTs and Out-turns Approvals - Reprovisioning Programme Table 11 – Grant Levels for Tender Approvals Table 4 – National and Regional Housing Associations included in Tables 1, 2 and 3 Table 12 – Grant Levels v Grant Subsidy Benchmark FOREWORD BY LIZ CAMERON, EXECUTIVE MEMBER FOR BUSINESS & THE ECONOMY As the Strategic Housing Authority for our city, Glasgow City Council’s vision is that people will want to live in Glasgow, and that they will have a choice of affordable, high-quality homes across a range of tenures. This annual review describes how we and our Registered Social Landlord partners performed in delivering affordable homes in the financial year 2013/14 through our Affordable Housing Supply Programme (AHSP). This Review highlights where houses were built, how much they cost, what type of homes were provided, and how this contributed to meeting housing need in the city. It also shows the level of funding for medical adaptations to existing homes, and highlights our large- scale housing led regeneration projects. Our large scale housing led regeneration projects, continue to be delivered at pace, across the city, dramatically improving the physical, social and economic environment in some of the city’s most deprived neighbourhoods. In particular 2013/14 has seen the completion of the 2014 Athletes’ Village, which is already heralded as an exemplar in Urban Regeneration, bringing 400 much needed affordable homes, which excel in energy efficiency standards. Demand for the first 300 homes for sale has also been staggering, bringing both new and former residents back into the East End. In Sighthill, despite the city losing out to Buenos Aires to host the 2018 Youth Olympic Games, the council and it’s Transforming Communities : Glasgow partners (GHA and Scottish Government) have committed to delivering Sighthill TRA some 20 years ahead of schedule. 141 Homes for Rent by GHA started on site in January 2014, with a further 600 mixed tenure homes included in the wider masterplan Planning Application in Principle, which was approved by the council in April 2014. Delivering our investment priorities this year has been extremely challenging. At the start of the year, subsidy levels were set at £42k per unit (3P Equivalent) and this along with other restrictive guidelines such as payment on completion allied with other wider financial issues facing RSL’s, meant that many of our Housing Association and Cooperative Partners were finding it difficult to take forward further development activity. In April 2013, the council were delighted to be asked to participate in the Scottish Government’s Affordable Housing Subsidy Working Group to review the current guidelines and subsidy levels applied nationally. As the country’s largest TMDF authority, the council played an important part in contributing to new draft AHSP Guidelines produced by the group. The new AHSP Guidelines included revised subsidy levels of £58k per unit (3P Equivalent) and staged payment arrangements being re introduced. 2 These improved guidelines have undoubtedly increased the levels of activity in affordable housing investment across the city. The Council successfully invested £54.954m in grant in 2013/14. 700 new and improved homes were approved in 2013/14 which has contributed to a total of £80m of investment in the construction industry and related businesses in Glasgow. However, there are still barriers to affordable housing development and we will continue to work with our colleagues in the Scottish Government, RSLs and other partners to facilitate further development across the city and to ensure we deliver the quantity and quality of homes which our citizens need. Fuller details of the Council’s Affordable Housing Supply Programme are available on the web at www.glasgow.gov.uk/housing Specific queries on the Affordable Housing Supply Programme should be directed to Jackie McIntosh on 0141-287-8456, or at [email protected] 3 HOUSING UNITS • 972 homes were completed during the year. • We funded £ 2.431m of adaptations to Housing Association homes. This has enabled 911 households that have a family member with a disability or mobility issues to remain in their existing homes. Table 1: Unit Approvals by Housing Investment Area Area 2013/14 2013/14 2013/14 Out-turn Out-turn Out-turn New Build Improved TOTAL North West 178 27 205 North East 156 44 200 South 292 3 295 City Total 626 74 700 A map is provided at Appendix 1A illustrating the distribution of unit approvals across the city. Here are our highlights: • We spent a total of £54.954m of Affordable Housing Supply Grant in 2013/14 bringing the total amount of grant funding to £686m over the last 9 years. • We approved tenders for 700 new and improved homes in 2013/14. • We approved 62 new build homes for low cost ownership. • We approved 116 homes for mid market rent. • Construction or refurbishment of 315 homes began on site in 2013/14. Thenue HA –Dunn Street 4 Table 2: New Build Unit Approvals by Tenure Table 4: Unit Targets and Approvals by Housing Investment Area - Wheelchair Housing Tenure 2013/14 Out-turn North North South Total Housing Association (HA) Rent 465 West East Low Cost Home Ownership 62 Wheelchair target 30 49 8 87 2012/13 – 14/15 Mid Market Rent 99 Total 626 Approved 2012/13 2 17 0 19 Approved 2013/14 4 14 15 33 Outstanding balance - 24 18 +7 35 Table 3: Unit Approvals by Grant Type 2014/15 2013/14 Out-turn Wheelchair unit targets have been developed to meet a number of policy requirements, including: Housing Association (HA) Rent: - General Needs Homes 365 • the priorities contained within the Council’s Strategic Housing - Particular Needs Homes 113 Investment Plan; Mid Market Rent 116 • City Plan 2 (RES 4: on developments of 20 or more dwellings, 10% should be wheelchair accessible or readily adaptable); HAs Low Cost Home Ownership 62 • Scottish Planning Policy (SPP) 3, which requires the provision of LSVT - Improvement Grants to 44 housing for people with special needs. Owners Total 700 Provision of wheelchair housing and other forms of specialist new build housing continues to be affected by current AHSP Guidelines The Council approved 700 new and improved housing units in 2013/14, of levels and the challenging financial conditions facing RSLs. which - It should be noted however that targets refer to all social housing • 478 homes were for affordable rent, 62 were for low cost home provision in the city, including GHA, which is not reported here. ownership and 116 were for mid market rent • 488 were flats and 212 were houses. 5 Table 5: Unit Targets and Approvals by Housing Investment Area - Larger Family Homes North North South Total West East Larger family target 2012/13 58 32 33 123 – 14/15 Approved 2012/13 0 19 0 19 Approved 2013/14 4 0 5 9 Outstanding balance – 54 13 28 95 2014/15 A ‘larger family unit’ is defined as a home with 4 or more bedrooms and 6 or more bedspaces. Larger family unit targets have been developed to meet a number of policy requirements, including: • The Council’s Strategic Housing Investment Plan; • City Plan 2. As with wheelchair housing, larger family provision has been affected by current AHSP guidelines allied with the impact of Welfare reform. It must also be noted that output reported here does not incorporate any GHA approvals. Queens Cross HA – Ancroft Street 6 Table 6: Unit Targets and Completions by Grant Type Unit Completions by Grant Type 2013/14 Planned 2013/14 Outturn 2013/14 2013/14 2014/15 350 Planned Outturn Planned 300 250 Housing for Rent 200 AHSP: 150 100 General Needs 153 157 415 50 0 t ds F n g T) e II in V Particular Needs 76 76 62 Re n NSSE t io r Ne ke is (LS r v ula ro c Ma p epair d R General Needs arti Re New Supply Shared Equity (NSSE) 66 66 41 P Mi & Innovation and Investment Fund 281 281 0 Improvement Mid Market Rent 22 22 24 Reprovisioning: 45 45 173 LSVT: General Needs 0 0 29 Particular Needs 0 0 6 NSSE 0 0 11 Improvement & Repair 304 325 22 Total 947 972 783 A map is provided at Appendix 1B illustrating the distribution of unit completions across the city. Loretto HA – Tollcross Road 7 EXPENDITURE The 2013/14 out-turn figure is broken down as follows:- Core Programme £26.407m Innovation and Investment Fund £11.871m LSVT Programme £14.000m Table 7: Expenditure by Housing Investment Area Scottish Veterans £ 0.150m Govanhill Acquisition Programme £ 0.095m Area 2013/14 2013/14 Medical Adaptations (Stage 3) £ 2.431m £54.954m Planned Out-turn £m £m The final outturn figure of £54.954m was achieved due to an additional sum of £5.576m being made available during the year by North West 14.194 20.976 Scottish Government to assist with changes to grant subsidy levels and North East 10.652 12.526 conditions.