The Henry Stewart 2006 Annual Briefing
Providing and
Funding Social Housing

A property sector undergoing rapid change presenting multiple opportunities and challenges.

The 2006 briefing covers:
• Government’s objectives and policy now AND the implications for the industry including changes in central and local government guidance, regulations and practices
• Interpreting the implications of the Mayor of London’s supplementary guidance
• Progress towards and implications of the Government’s inexpensive house initiative
• Housing Corporation funding policy in the future and its consequences
• Non-Housing Corporation sources of funding – finance from whom, for what and on what terms
• Opportunities in PFI and Prudential Borrowing
• Problems, solutions and opportunities in the key worker housing market
• Latest thinking on intermediate tenure: new structures, new build, home buy
• Implications of future changes in planning policy and guidance
• Meeting the challenges of site finding and affordable site values
• How the new procurement rules will affect what can be achieved
• Future strategies for RSLs, ALMOs and joint ventures in their many forms
• Market review: who is doing/planning to do what, where and when – planned growth in Southern England
• The future for local authority housing after the option appraisal

Essential for all local authority directors and chairs of housing, directors and executives of housing associations, funders, building societies, housebuilders, developers, planners and other policy and decision makers.

Full documentation will be provided to all delegates and adequate time set aside for questions and discussion.

Friday, 20 January 2006
Radisson SAS Portman Hotel, London W1