Delivering Sustainable Communities Through an MAA

1. Delivering Sustainable Communities Through an MAA Jeff Goode Director Transform South Yorkshire South Yorkshire’s Housing Market Renewal Pathfinder

2. Introduction • Why we want an MAA • What we could achieve through an MAA • What an MA could include • What we need • What we could achieve through an MAA • Where we are now South Yorkshire’s Housing Market Renewal Pathfinder

3. Why an MAA? • Funding through separate streams • Re-application required for renewed or successive funding • Each with own bidding, appraisal, eligibility and spending rules and performance reporting arrangements • Uncertainty, reflected in measured engagement by private sector and communities sceptical about ability to deliver promised change South Yorkshire’s Housing Market Renewal Pathfinder

4. South Yorkshire’s Housing Market Renewal Pathfinder

5. What we could achieve “Pooled” to “Single Stream” Funding for people and places Expanded LAA Pooling of resources Flexibility of use Single Neighbourhoods focused funding stream supports delivery of 10 year strategy with pooling at sub regional level and strategic alignment at City Region level Multi Area Agreements Increased impact through pooling at sub regional level Strategic context provided by City Region joint issue board City to City Region planning and funding alignment South Yorkshire’s Housing Market Renewal Pathfinder

6. What we could include • Housing Market Renewal • Decent Homes • Major repairs allowance • Capital receipts • Regional Housing Board resources • National Affordable Housing Programme • S106 Affordable Housing resources including commuted sums • Supporting People • NRF South Yorkshire’s Housing Market Renewal Pathfinder

7. What we need • Pooling of resources • Flexibility around eligibility criteria • Unrestricted use of capital receipts • Supporting projects across programme years • Permissible to cash-flow conducive activity • Long-term single stream funding linked to 10 year strategy and investment plan • Relaxation on clawback • Streamlining performance monitoring and inspection South Yorkshire’s Housing Market Renewal Pathfinder

8. What we could achieve • Integration of capital and revenue funding to support neighbourhood focused regeneration and services • Efficient and effective use of the totality of resources to deliver more affordable housing more rapidly • Simplifying the delivery of major regeneration project, e.g. Park Hill, currently made complex by the multiplicity of funding streams • Better private sector engagement • Enabling the delivery of neighbourhood centres • Efficiencies through longer-term procurement and partnerships • Capitalising on windfall projects and opportunities • An investment response to Communities England • Community confidence in the ability to see through transformational change South Yorkshire’s Housing Market Renewal Pathfinder

9. Where we are now Regional Assembly and Regional Planning / Housing Board South Yorkshire Partnership alignment of funding with economic programme City Region Joint Issue Boards Transform South Yorkshire Sub Regional partnership Multi Area Agreement Barnsley MDC Doncaster MDC Rotherham MDC Sheffield MDC LSP LSP LAA LAA LAA LAA Programme Delivery Boards South Yorkshire’s Housing Market Renewal Pathfinder

10. Strategic Strong partnership Robust strategy Spatial priorities Operational Agree approach Indicator setting Dynamic debate/timescales Challenges South Yorkshire’s Housing Market Renewal Pathfinder