LINks - the Housing LIN's essential weekly bulletin (14 July)
NEW HOUSING LIN CASE STUDY
Woodchester Valley Village: How we turned a disaster into the first mutually owned retirement village (opens new window)
To coincide with #RuralHousingWeek, this case study looks at the important issues affecting the development and management of leasehold retirement housing in the UK and captures the story of the residents at Woodchester Valley Village near Nailsworth, Gloucestershire, who have experienced the best of living in a retirement village by taking managing control of the site when their developer/owner went into receivership. It is adapted from a presentation given at a CARLEX/Leasehold Knowledge Partnership meeting and covers the key issues affecting this fledgling sector given, in particular, the total unsuitability of current leasehold law and the limited rights some people have when they buy a retirement home.
NEW HOUSING LIN BRIEFING
Closing the health gap - a gap worth closing: How housing can play its part in reducing health inequalities (opens new window)
This briefing equips housing, care and support practitioners, and public health teams, with ideas about practical actions they can take to reduce health inequalities. Supported by Public Health England, it draws attention to key measures to remove or reduce the impact of factors that make people ill, such as cold homes and fuel poverty, as well as approaches to increasing the potential for individuals and communities to improve their own health, by taking control of their lives and building confidence and resilience.
And finally, it provides links to resources to enable housing providers to better engage with the health sector and to measure changes in health inequalities over time, at the local level.
HAPPI AWARDS ANNOUNCED
The Housing Design Awards 2016, held at the Institute of Engineering and Technology this week, showcased all that is best in housing design in the UK. Presenting the two HAPPI prizes, Jeremy Porteus congratulated PegasusLife and Duggan Morris Architects for winning the HAPPI Project award for their designs for their development in Hampstead Green, LB Camden - the 2nd year in a row that PegasusLife have won! And following suit, PRP Architects came up trumps with their completed extra care housing scheme - Windmill Court in LB Waltham Forest for Circle 33.
Special mention also goes to the Older Women's Co-Housing (OWCH)/Hanover scheme and architects Pollard Thomas Edwards for winning the Richard Feilden Prize. The scheme in Barnet was the focus of the Housing LIN's London regional seminar at the Design Council last year and is also featured in the recent HAPPI3 report. More here. (opens new window)
FUNDING, POLICY AND PRACTICE DEVELOPMENT
Findings of DWP and DCLG's Supported Accommodation Review and options for Wales (opens new window)
Supported Housing Parliamentary debate (12 July 2016) (opens new window)
USEFUL NEW TOOLS AND REPORTS
Towards a new age: The future of the UK welfare state (opens new window)
Health and Wellbeing Boards explained (opens new window)
Building bridges, breaking barriers: Integrated care for older people (opens new window)
CALL FOR INFORMATION
SHOP@ Analysis Tool review (opens new window)
OTHER VIEWS, NEWS AND RESOURCES
Attendance Allowance and Local Government - Examining the evidence and the options
5.3 million new homes needed as ageing and immigration drive demand (Daily Telegraph) (opens new window)
Report on the DFG Summit
TELECARE LIN NEWSLETTER
This week's news headlines from the Telecare LIN can be downloaded in two formats (doc; pdf) at:
- Telecare News Headlines 14 July 2016 (doc - 1.86Mb) (opens new window)
- Telecare News Headlines 14 July 2016 (pdf - 510Kb)
FORTHCOMING HOUSING LIN REGIONAL MEETING
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