HOUSING MARKET RENEWAL

Housing market renewal thinking is a powerful new way of looking at less successful neighbourhoods and ways that their housing markets might be made more vibrant.  But it is proving more difficult to turn strategic thinking into real interventions on the ground.  These need to:

• Have a demonstrable long term impact on housing markets
• Act across large and complex areas, gaining support from other agencies’ programmes
• Offer good value for money
• Secure resident and political support

HOW SECTOR WEEDON GRANT CAN HELP

Sector Weedon Grant team members have worked on HMR commissions in East Lancashire, South Yorkshire, Staffordshire, Tees Valley and the West Midlands and on Audit Commission scrutiny of Pathfinders.  The company’s market renewal specialists work closely with business plan modelling, funding, procurement, management and governance colleagues making for rounded, well-founded market renewal advice in:

• Helping develop early strategic vision into planned long-term goals
• Focused market understanding and intelligence
• Governance
• Project commissioning and appraisal
• Financial viability, funding and risk modelling
• Special purpose vehicles and partnerships