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Jeremy Porteus Managing Director @ HousingLIN

Rural Housing our Ageing Population: Preserving Independence 11 May 2018. Jeremy Porteus Managing Director @ HousingLIN. APPG Rural Housing for Older People Inquiry. Terms of reference

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Jeremy Porteus Managing Director @ HousingLIN

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  1. Rural Housing our Ageing Population: Preserving Independence 11 May 2018 Jeremy Porteus Managing Director @HousingLIN

  2. APPG Rural Housing for Older People Inquiry Terms of reference The aim of the inquiry is to consider the obstacles to ensuring older people living in rural areas enjoy appropriate housing and have access to adequate care and support at home; and to make recommendations to Government, and those planning, commissioning and operating housing and care in rural areas.

  3. APPG HAPPI4 - Methodology Inquiry members made up of Parliamentarians and experts including CLA, ADASS and TCPA APPG inquiry visits to North Yorkshire, Cheshire and Wales 3 Inquiry sessions in Westminster with expert witnesses and the lived experience of older people Call for evidence issued by the Housing LIN Received written submissions

  4. South West representations Cornwall Rural Housing Association Barnwood Trust Rooftop Housing Group Aster Group (Toller Pocorum) St Monica Trust

  5. HAPPI4 – key messages “Our underlying concern is with the growing numbers of older people in rural communities who will face a huge challenge to their independence and wellbeing if their homes are no longer suitable. Their needs can be met by both small village developments – perhaps six bungalows on an unused scrap of land – or by larger scale retirement schemes in towns close by. While we concluded that both these solutions can work well, we were particularly keen to remove the barriers to helping people remain in their own locality. We recognised that there are extra costs of delivering care to those in rural areas, we were clear that tailor-made homes will, of themselves, reduce the need for care at home and help older people stay well for longer.”

  6. HAPPI4 – what we found “We need to be more creative if we are to meet the housing needs of rural communities” Dominic Raab, Housing Minister “When a social problem [rural housing] reaches 'The Archers' you know it’s big” Richard Macer, BBC’s Battle in the Countryside “I want to grow older where I am. Living in a village is lovely. There is togetherness which I wouldn’t find so easily in a town whereas in a village I am not lonely at all. It’s idyllic, it’s peaceful, and it’s wonderful” Mrs June Rowberry, retired Rooftop Housing Group resident

  7. Key rural infographics (1)

  8. Key rural infographics (2)

  9. Key rural infographics (3)

  10. Should I stay or should I go? Almshouses Community-led housing Extra care ‘hubs’/ retirement villages General Needs/bungalows Mainstream HAPPI housing Care and Repair/HIAs and handyperson services

  11. HAPPI4 – key areas covered • Meeting older people’s housing needs and aspirations • Healthier homes, rural baby-boomers, sheltered housing, wider housing choices, intergenerational housing, rural housing enabling, agri-business • Planning for later life housing in rural areas • NPPF, planning considerations, rural exception sites, better strategic planning, unlocking local authority land, s106 etc • Prescribing better rural health and social care • Health & wellbeing, ageing population, hub and spoke models, social prescribing, broadband and technology, voluteering and mutual support

  12. HAPPI4 – key recommendations • For Government – rural-proofing housing to stimulate growth, retain Local Plans in planning policy, adoption of Lifetime Homes and age-friendly HAPPI design, withhold Right to Buy, conversion of farm buildings ie for retirement purposes • For Homes England – use grant to support a viable market in rural areas, support Rural Housing Enablers and community-led approaches • For local authorities – strategic leadership, encourage housing for older people on rural exception sites, delivery HAPPI housing to offset expensie homecare & residential care in rural areas, support HIAs • For Housing organisations – more effective partnerships with CLTs, explore innovative technology to reduce isolation, create ‘hubs’, offer more housing choice, including almshouses • For landowners – work with LAs and HAs to develop suitable and affordable housing, inc for retired farmer workers, key workers etc

  13. A rural housing pledge Work closely with the local community and Parish Council to find the right site Always give qualifying local people in housing need first priority for every home Ensure that affordable homes always remain affordable Build sensitively designed, high quality homes to high environmental standards Provide good quality and locally sensitive management services to our residents, and Always respond positively to the local community

  14. Rural proofing HAPPI design principles

  15. Thank you! C/o EAC 3rd Floor, 89 Albert Embankment London SE1 7TP email:dementia@housinglin.org.uk tel: 020 7820 8077 website:www.housinglin.org.uk Twitter: @HousingLIN

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