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Morning briefing: housing sector worth £1bn to Northern Irish economy, report finds

A new report highlights the contribution of the social housing sector in Northern Ireland, plus all the rest of today’s housing news.

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The social housing sector is worth £1bn a year to Northern Ireland’s economy, a new report says.

The ‘Benefits to Society’ study, produced by the Northern Ireland Federation of Housing Associations (NIFHA), found that social or affordable housing accounts for one in six of all homes in the north, with about 1,700 new buildings each year.

Around 6,000 people are employed across the 20 associations and the Housing Executive. The Irish News has more.

Labour has announced that it would guarantee a nationwide network of youth clubs and other services for young people as a way of tackling problems such as mental ill-health and school exclusions, as well as involvement in knife and drug crime.

Announcing the pledge under the banner of Only Young Once, Labour said government figures showed the amount spent on youth services overall had fallen by more than £1bn a year in real terms since 2010-11, a drop of 73%, the Guardian reports.

Meanwhile, house prices are rising at the slowest annual pace for more than six years, according to the Halifax bank.

The mortgage lender, part of Lloyds Banking Group, said prices rose 1.1% in the year to the end of September, the slowest rate since April 2013, reports the BBC.


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A third apartment complex in Wales has been found to have serious fire safety breaches in the wake of the Grenfell Tower fire.

Altamar, on Kings Road, in Swansea Marina, was issued an enforcement notice by Mid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Service, information obtained by a Freedom of Information Act request by WalesOnline has revealed.

The nine-storey tower block has a total of 149 apartments.

Altamar is the third tower block in Wales which had serious fire safety breaches – and all the fire safety deficiencies that were identified have now been addressed. Cladding which failed fire safety tests also had to be removed from 12 buildings in Cardiff.

In development news, one of the biggest single housing schemes in Northern Ireland has been given the green light by Derry and Strabane Council.

The Belfast Telegraph reports that developer South Bank Square plans to build around 750 new homes on a 37.5-hectare site in the Waterside area of the city in a £100m investment.

Darlington Borough Council’s cabinet has been recommended to stop placing low-paid workers higher up the list for housing as well as suspending people who have built up rent arrears from applying for a council house.

A report to cabinet members said there was also support for several other proposals, such as ending the policy of having an extra preference for people wanting to transfer from houses that were bigger than they need. The Northern Echo has the full report.

In South Oxfordshire, councillors have been warned they are putting tens of millions of pounds of government funding at risk by stalling the area’s Local Plan.

The plan, which outlines sites for 28,000 new homes to be built by 2034, was approved by the council earlier this year when it was controlled by the Conservatives.

However, a coalition of the Liberal Democrats and Greens took control following the elections in May and they have said they are considering revising or withdrawing the document, the Henley Standard reports.

And here’s an interesting comment from the Guardian’s economics editor Larry Elliott, who says a cut in stamp duty may be politically expedient for Sajid Javid, but it would be a big mistake.

 

On social media

There is much happening on social media for this year’s Housing Day:

Some housing professionals are attending a National Tackling Anti-Social Behaviour course:

The full programme is below.

#IHchat programme on Housing Day 2019

#IHchat programme on Housing Day 2019

Tuesday 8 October is #HousingDay and Inside Housing is hosting a whole day of live Twitter Q&As with senior sector figures, including a live video conversation with Alison Inman and David Orr.

Tweet your questions to the panellists using the hashtag #IHchat at the times below:

8am – 8.45am: An introduction to #HousingDay

Leslie Channon, housing consultant and #HousingDay organiser – @LeslieChannon

Barry Malki, housing consultant – @barrybehaved

Chair: Carl Brown

9am – 9.45am: The next 100 years of council housing

Dominic Beck, cabinet member for housing, Rotherham Council - @Dominic_E_Beck

Emma Lindley, housing strategy lead, Ashfield District Council – @Emma_Lindley

Paul Smith, cabinet member for housing, Bristol City Council – @BristolPaul

David Renard, chair of the economy, environment, housing and transport board, Local Government Association – @CllrDavidRenard

Chair: Nathaniel Barker

10am – 10.45am: Providing the right homes in the right places

Alan Brunt, chief executive, Bron Afon Community Housing – @albrunt

Sheron Carter, chief executive, Habinteg Housing Association – @CarterSheron

Paul Hackett, chief executive, Optivo – @PaulHackett10

Tracy Harrison, chief executive, Northern Housing Consortium – @tjharrison1

Amy Nettleton, assistant development director – sales and marketing, Aster Group – @amynettleton1

Chair: Jack Simpson

11am – 11.45am: In conversation with Kate Henderson

Kate Henderson, chief executive, National Housing Federation – @KateNHF

Chair: Peter Apps

12am – 12.45pm: How can we tell a better story about social housing?

Victoria Dingle, tenant non-executive director, Soha Housing – @Victoria_Dingle

Steve Hayes, head of communications, Citizen – @SteveH_Citizen

Paul Taylor, innovation coach, Bromford – @PaulBromford

Boris Worrall, chief executive, Rooftop Housing – @BorisJWorrall

Chair: Carl Brown

1pm – 1.45pm: The homelessness and rough sleeping crisis

Faye Greaves, practice and policy officer, Chartered Institute of Housing – @FayeGreavesCIH

David Bogle, chief executive, Hightown Housing Association – @David_Bogle

Chair: Lucie Heath

2pm – 2.45pm: The regulatory landscape

Jonathan Walters, deputy chief executive, Regulator of Social Housing –@JonathanW_RSH

Jenny Osbourne, chief executive, Tpas – @TPASJenny

Steve Douglas, group chief executive, Aquila Services Group – @Steve_Altair

Chair: Gavriel Hollander

3.15pm - 4pm: IH Live video chat - the future role of social housing

Alison Inman, board member, Colne Housing, Saffron Housing and Tpas – @Alison_Inman

David Orr, chair, Clarion – @DavidOrrCBE

Chair: Nathaniel Barker

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