West Midlands Strategic Housing Programme

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West Midlands Strategic Housing Programme

• Greg Goold Principal Consultant
• 7th January 2008

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what is the IDeA strategic housing programme?

• Funded by CLG
• 4 main outcomes
• Improved joint delivery between housing,
  planning and economic development
• Improved cross-boundary working / strengthened
  housing strategies
• Improved partnership working LSP, LAA, private
  sector etc
• Elected member engagement strengthened

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national support opportunities

• Good practice guides
• Leadership Academies (member training)
• 18-19 March Warwick
• 9-10 April - Bath
• Growth point authority support
• Housing finance training
• Resident Involvement conferences for members
• 6 Feb Taunton
• 27 Feb Manchester
• www.resident-involvement.org.uk

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West Midlands key priorities

• May October scoping work to identify
  priorities
• Member Awareness
• Skills/Capacity
• Internal Working
• Partnerships

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Support for the region

• Regional conference
• Sub-regional workshops
• Work with CIH to address skills issues

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support for the region cont..

• Support for specific authorities / housing market
  areas
• peer reviews
• Housing and planning workshops
• Member training
• Visioning, place-shaping
• Private rented sector
• Cohesion issues
• Housing and LAAs

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programme delivery to date

• 71 elected members attended Leadership Academies
  so far 5 from West Midlands
• 20 individual activities nationally
• 60 officers attending housing and regeneration
  training
• 2 good practice guides
• Mentoring relationships established

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Sub-Regional Lead Officers

• Central 1 George Daley (Solihull)
• Central 2 Ayaz Maqsood (Coventry)
• Central 3 Kerry Bolister (Wolverhampton)
• North Alan Slater (Stoke)
• South Phil Street (Bromsgrove)
• West Richard Gabb (Herefordshire)

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IDeA Contact

• Greg Goold
• Greg.goold_at_idea.gov.uk
• 07799 038 367