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This week’s HLINks: 6-10 July 2020

Jeremy talks….
Welcome to Jeremy talks and my weekly piece to audio to coincide with the Housing LIN's bulletin HLINks week ending 10 July.

Last week, I mentioned the Prime Minister’s announcement to ‘build, build, build'. This week this has been replaced by the Chancellor’s call to ‘buy, buy, buy’. One of the take-aways, the cutting of Stamp Duty holiday on properties sold for up to £500,000 until 31 March 2021. While welcome, in a joint letter to the Chancellor last month, we partnered other leading retirement housing groups to urge him to consider a ‘help to move’ package to encourage ‘downsizing’, including removing Stamp Duty specifically for people selling their home to move into retirement housing and extra care. We hope for a move in this direction in future.

In this week's edition of HLINks, we bring you a brand new modelling report on extra care housing and design and cost considerations. The report is a useful resource for benchmarking costs for developing extra care housing including taking into account the impact of COVID on design, labour and materials and fire protection measures post-Grenfell.

We also feature three very different guest blogs that reflect the interests of our broad membership. The first is one by Damian Utton, a co-author of the new design and cost model in which he provides an overview of the report. Another is on the impact of Coronavirus on local communities and older people in Madrid, Spain, to coincide with Coproduction Week. And the final one is on a new homelessness and mental health service in Gloucestershire under lockdown for Rural Housing Week, which is also took place this week.

To read these and a round-up of relevant news and events on housing, health and social care matters, check out our latest weekly bulletin on our website or register online to receive our alerts and other notifications of your choice sent direct to your inbox.

And, if you would like to talk with us about any matters highlighted and/or share learning about your work, email ‘Jeremy talks’ at: info@housinglin.org.uk.

Best wishes and stay safe,

Jeremy 

This week HLINks also includes:

  • a round-up of latest/updated Covid-19 resources and guidance relevant to the sector
  • a reminder of our joint survey with Appello on our sector’s digital appetite under COVID-19
  • In association with Tetlow King Planning, the updated Older People’s Care Development – Local Development Plan Monitoring
  • the 2020 national Housing Design Awards and the category we are pleased to support, Senior housing developments that are truly HAPPI.
  • our usual a round-up of news headlines and new resources on housing, ageing, design and technology, planning, health and care, calls for information, and
  • next week, we have three new blogs for you. The first by James Bullion, the new President of ADASS, who gives an overview the key messages from his recent presentation at last month’s Recover / Reset / Regenerate conference (opens new window). This is followed by Becky Walker’s blog on the work of Oxford City Council’s HIA on prioritising adaptations for people being discharged from hospital under lockdown. And finally, we take a look at lodgings and homesharing with Suzanne Noble from Silver Sharers.

The Housing LIN would like to thank Willmott Dixon for their support in producing this newsletter.