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Friday, 29th July 2022
Welcome to #Jeremytalks and this week’s sector news from the Housing LIN, the last issue ahead of our summer news break.
This week we published a refresh of the Housing LIN factsheet on Interior Design (No34). Updated and written by Lori Pinkerton-Rolet, director of Park Grove Design, the factsheet was officially launched on Tuesday's HAPPI Hour with Motionspot's Ed Warner. The webinar recording and a copy of the presentation slides are now available here.
And hot off the press, the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities have just published their response to consultation on raising accessibility standards for new homes. Read our response here.
In other news, I am pleased to have been invited to be a judge on Inside Housing's UK Housing Awards . These prestigious awards are in their 26th year and have a number of categories including 'Best older people's landlord', celebrating a landlord who has played a vital part in providing housing and support to older people. Winners to be announced on Friday, 25 November 2022 at a lunchtime ceremony in Manchester.
What else caught my interest?
- Government consultation: Have your say on the Down Syndrome Act
- Knight Frank report: Seniors Housing Development Update 2022
- UKRI Health Ageing Challenge announcement: Design for Ageing grant awards
- NHS England report: Tackling inequalities in healthcare access, experience, and outcomes
- Dementia Change Action Network and Neil Crowther Report: Where Are We Now?
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Jeremy Porteus Chief Executive |
Housing LIN Products
Available now! Key interior design considerations for later living environments.
This Factsheet (no 34), a collaboration between Park Grove Design Ltd and the Housing LIN, shares latest key interior design considerations when developing environments for later living which are both inviting and in-line with current design research and practice.
Re-watch the launch here.
Housing, Community, Disability, and Ageing
Seniors Housing Development Update 2022
The report highlights how Integrated Retirement Communities (IRC) completions accounted for 51% of new seniors housing units built between 2011 and 2021, up from 36% over the previous 10-year period, with the remainder age-restricted retirement housing.
It also forecasts that the total number of specialist seniors housing units in the UK will grow by 8% over the next five years, taking the total size of the sector to just short of 820,000 units. This, and an increase in urban settlement, will continute to be driven by institutional investment
What else caught our interest?
- Agile Ageing Alliance: ISO Standard for Multigenerational Neighbourhoods gets Green Light
- Centre for Ageing Better blog: England's ageing population needs better political representation and focus
- Age and Ageing article: Projections of dependency and associated social care expenditure for the older population in England to 2038: effect of varying disability progression
- House of Commons Committee report: The Regulation of Social Housing - Levelling Up, Housing and Communities Committee
- ExtraCare Charitable Trust blog: Living in a retirement village: what to expect
- Sir Halley Stewart and Wates Foundation Special Funding Initiative: Prevention of homelessness in young women
Design, Construction, Planning and Technology
Government support for raising accessibility for new homes
The government have today published their long-awaited response to the consultation on raising accessibility standards for new homes. The 2020 consultation sought views on how to raise accessibility of new homes and put a number of options forward in relation to making amendments to Part M of the Building Regulations.
As a member of the HoME Coalition - calling for stronger rules on accessibility - the Housing LIN supported proposals for Part M4(2) as the minimum accessibility standard and as is delighted by the outcome of the consultation and the government's proposals to adopt Part M4(2) as a minimum standard.
What caught our interest?
- UKRI Health Ageing Challenge announcement: Design for Ageing grant awards
TAPPI2: From Principles to Implementation - Weekly update
Co-production, one of the ten TAPPI principles, is about involving people to co-create solutions to inform how they want to live their lives.
On Wednesday, the TAPPI team (Housing LIN, TSA, The Dunhill Medial Trust and the Cambridge Centre for Housing and Planning Research (CCHPR) at University of Cambridge) met with Co-Production Works, TAPPI's Co-Production and Engagement Partner, for the first of two training sessions on what co-production should look like and what implications this has for our role moving forward in the project.
We look forward to announcing the successful locality 'testbeds' (or demonstrator sites) in September's edition of HLINks.
Health and social care, mental health and learning disability
Building the right support for people with a learning disability and autistic people - Action Plan
This wide ranging action plan brings together, in one place, the commitments that have been made by different organisations to realise these aims. It aims to make further and faster progress, and drive long-term change for people with a learning disability and autistic people, including boosting the supply of supported housing.
What else caught our interest?
- Department of Health Action Plan: Building the Right Support for People with a Learning Disability and Autistic People Action Plan - July 2022
- Walsall Housing Group YouTube video: Rachel and Mr Brewer's Story
- NHS England report: Tackling inequalities in healthcare access, experience, and outcomes: Actionable Insights
Dementia
What caught our interest?
- Dementia Change Action Network and Neil Crowther Report: Where Are We Now?
Events
Watch, Listen & Learn
Our popular Spring/Summer series of HAPPI Hour sessions drew to a close this week. However, please note that we are currently working on an exciting Autumn/Winter programme for you, commencing on Tuesday, 20 September.
Watch this space! In the meantime, to watch recordings of all the webinars held to date on our Past Events webpage.
In recognition of the success of our HAPPI Hour sessions, we are delighted that the UKRI Healthy Ageing Challenge, delivered by Innovate UK, have come on board as a sponsor of our online events.
Events supported by the Housing LIN
- National Housing Summit 2022 Monday, 12th – Tuesday, 13th September
- East of England: LGA - Putting People at the Heart of New Housing Development: Co-producing the Place We Call Home on Friday, 7th October 9:30am – 4:00pm
- SALUS Healthy City Design conference Monday, 10 October – Tuesday, 11 October - Call for papers now open
- Housing 21: Annual Conference, Birmingham on Wednesday, 12th October 2022 10am – 4pm
Next week’s HLINks
As mentioned above, please note this edition of HLINks is our final one before our summer break. We resume on Friday, 2 September when we also plan to announce our autumn/winter HAPPI Hour series of webinars.
Follow us on Twitter and check the latest news section on our website over the intervening weeks as we will have selection of thought-leadership pieces coming out soon!
Lastly, we invite your network and colleagues to become Housing LIN members! Have someone in mind? They can register their details here.
The Housing LIN would like to thank Willmott Dixon for their support in producing this newsletter.