London Region Housing LIN
Updated on 19/04/2012
London Region Housing LIN Lead:
- Margaret Edwards, Mead Solutions Ltd, margaret.edwards@zen.co.uk
For the next London Region Housing LIN meeting, please look under 'Events'
Regional Update - April 2012
Margaret Edwards reports that a copy of the report on the February debate as part of the consultation on the Mayor's draft revise London Housing Strategy is now available. Delegates welcomed the commitment to give greater attention to the housing needs of older Londoners. Click here to view 
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Other news: Hanover Housing Association have acquired a £26m six acre site in Muswell Hill, LB Haringey, in response to demand for co-housing in the area. Inspired by the North London Sustainable Housing Partnership, a cohousing group of local residents who have come together to find a housing opportunity where they can live in a mutually supportive community, Hanover will be involving the group to develop part of the site. It represents an exciting opportunity for co-housing in North London.
Sue Starkey House, a new scheme in Tower Hamlet, has recently opened. It comprises 40 flats, of which eight are two bedrooms. The building - along with another to be completed in the borough shortly - will give less able residents in Tower Hamlets more choice in the type of housing and care support available to them.
And finally, LB Southwark have launched a commission on the future of council housing in the borough which will report in September 2012. For details and/or contribute, go to: http://www.southwarkhousingcommission.com/
Regional Resources
- Debating London's Homes - Are they fit for our lifetime? Consultation response to the Mayor's Draft Revised London Housing Strategy from the Older People's Debate 23rd February 2012
- London Housing Design Guide (interim) The London Development Agency has published the new London Housing Design Guide, which sets a new benchmark for housing design in London. All housing built on London Development Agency land is expected...
- Extra Care Housing and Personal Budgets This Housing LIN Workshop Report describes the scenarios, and identifies a set of key questions and issues, aided by the feedback from a recent workshop on the subject, hosted by the South East and London...
- Choice, control and independence: Personalising block contracts in supported housing This interim report on a Supporting People project, jointly funded between Look Ahead Housing and Care and LB Tower Hamlets, is one of the first to report on the idea of personalising services and giving...
- Supporting Diversity in Tower Hamlets Housing LIN Case study No 7 - A description of Sonali Gardens, an Extra Care scheme for Bangladeshi and Asian elders in Tower Hamlets.
- Shared Ownership for people with disabilities This Housing LIN Case Study No12 provides details about a specialist shared ownership scheme managed by Notting Hill Home Ownership for people with disabilities. It describes how the scheme works, provides...
- Valuing older people - the Mayor of London's Older People Strategy Published by Greater London Authority, the Mayor of London's vision of a London where older people have choice and control over their lives. The strategy covers many aspects of older people's lives and...
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