Being Innovative

with Funding

Debbie Hope Strategic Manager Housing

Growth

Being Innovative with Funding

Being Innovative with Funding

Why am I here? • To tell you about Stoke • To tell you what we have to deal with • To tell you how we are dealing with it

Being Innovative with Funding

Being Innovative with Funding

• Stoke’s industrial Heritage • Stoke housing market including housing

completions profile • Stoke house prices

Being Innovative with Funding

• Housing market build cost inflation • Sites we have delivered and the filth we have

had to deal with

Being Innovative with Funding

Barratts (former Churchill Pottery Site)

Being Innovative with Funding

Barratts • Mares tail • Knotweed • Domestic tip leeching • Railway tunnel • Demolition • Made ground

Being Innovative with Funding

Barratts (former Churchill Pottery Site)

Being Innovative with Funding

Barratts (former Churchill Pottery Site)

Being Innovative with Funding Seddons • Mineshaft • Pottery buildings • Canal wall

Being Innovative with Funding Seddons

Being Innovative with Funding

Being Innovative with Funding

Avant Homes • Potbanks • Mine working • Knotweed • Canal wall

Being Innovative with Funding

Being Innovative with Funding

Avant Homes- Johnsons wharf

Being Innovative with Funding

Solutions: • Deal structuring • Land value • Public funding for housing schemes- HiF

Being Innovative with Funding

Housing infrastructure Fund: • 9 sites • Remediation issues across all of them

including: • Ground gas, mine entries and workings,

contaminants, foundations, heritage assets and ecology

Being Innovative with Funding

HiF Sites

Being Innovative with Funding

Conclusions: • One size does not fit all • Be as flexible as you can • Transparency • Homes England role and relationship

For more information

Building Control: Visit: www.stoke.gov.uk/info/20062/building_regulations

Email: bas@stoke.gov.uk

Call: 01782 23 2459 / 8685

Environmental Solutions