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Housing Strategies

To ensure that extra care provision is tailored to population needs, commissioners need to develop overall strategies for an area or region. The resources listed below are examples of how extra care strategies have been developed in different places.

Housing allocations and the vacancy chain: how coordinating chains can better meet housing needs and tenant choice

This report, published by The Smith Institute, is an exploration into the factors influencing vacancy chains in London’s social housing, covering general needs stock held by councils, ALMOs and housing associations, with interplays from supported and specialist housing.

Extra Care Housing - The Opportunity: Memorandum of Information

This document lays out the process for bids to deliver Cornwall Council's extra care housing

Extra Care Housing in Wales: A state of the nation report

The supply of housing and the implications of an ageing population are two of the biggest challenges facing Wales. Wales is not alone - either in the UK or in western Europe - in facing those challenges....

Further Alterations to the London Plan

The Mayor of London has launched a city-wide planning strategy to deliver the economic, environmental, transport and social improvements that London will need over the next 20 years. The latest version...

Strategic Housing Market Assessment: Housing with Care for Older People in Kent

This Housing LIN Case Study no 104 by the Kent Housing Group (KHG) reports on the findings from a 'Future of Older Persons Housing' stakeholder workshop held towards the end of last year. In particular,...

Getting the housing offer right for older people: Dreywood Court, Romford

This Housing LIN Case Study no 91 looks in detail at the local strategic objectives for investing in extra care housing and the outcomes achieved to improve access to quality onsite care and support...

Kent County Council Accommodation Strategy for Adult Social Care

The council's strategy, 'Better Homes: Greater Choice', identifies how the provision, demand and aspiration for housing, care and support services will be met for adult social care clients should they...

A customer focused approach to a new extra care housing development

This Housing LIN Case Study no 84 explores the findings from a piece of bespoke market research that was undertaken for Sussex Housing and Care, a not-for-profit housing association, to better understand...

The Business Case for Extra Care Housing in Adult Social Care: An Evaluation of Extra Care Housing schemes in East Sussex

This Housing LIN Case Study no 78 provides a synthesis of the detailed evaluation of extra care housing schemes undertaken by East Sussex County Council to inform future decisions related to financial...

A healthy partnership: predicting future demand for extra care housing in Calderdale

This Housing LIN Case Study no 73 provides an overview of the triggers that led to the procurement of Willow Court, Elland, Halifax. The case study entails Pennine Housing 2000 and Calderdale Council...

Extra Care Housing in Hampshire: A Strategic Approach to deliver an ambition

This Housing LIN case study No 66 sets out Hampshire County Council's new strategy for extra care housing. Through an ambitious £45m investment programme across the County, Hampshire will deliver its...

Maximising value: A strategy to deliver Extra Care Housing in North Yorkshire

This Housing LIN Case study no 57 seeks to understand the strategic approach taken by North Yorkshire County Council (NYCC) in structuring their delivery model to continue the development of 1,800 units...

Extra Care Housing in Cambridgeshire: Developing a Marketing Strategy

This Housing LIN Case Study no 56 has been produced in order to highlight the approach adopted in Cambridgeshire to provide some structure to the marketing of Extra Care Housing. It showcases the work...

Delivering Personalised Care and Support Services in Extra Care Housing at Vernon Gardens, Brighton

This Housing LIN Case study no 58 the summary of how a group of prospective tenants with a wide range of physical disabilities and some associated learning disabilities were helped to develop their own...

Valuations and Affordability of Extra Care Housing

This Housing LIN Practice briefing suggests that specialist valuation advice, at an early stage of an Extra Care Housing scheme, can have significant savings by avoiding abortive and duplicated costs.

The Marketing of Extra Housing Schemes

This Housing LIN Practice briefing provides an overview of how specialist Extra Care Housing marketing services can ensure customer service standards, early capital receipts, reduced development interest...

A new lease for life: partnership opportunities for increasing capacity in extra care housing

This Housing LIN Viewpoint no 26 considers the scope for partnerships between organisations of differing types for the delivery and operation of extra care housing schemes and related forms of specialist...

Pretty Vacant: Vacancy chains and Extra Care Housing. Stimulating local housing markets

This Housing LIN Factsheet No 33 considers how the development of extra care housing can have a strategic impact on the better functioning of local housing markets by creating additional mobility within...

Assessment and allocation in extra care housing

This Housing LIN Report explores the main issues in the assessment for and subsequently allocation of extra care housing illustrated through a small number of case studies. It sets out the key considerations...

Integrating Extra Care: partnership working in Staffordshire

This Housing LIN Case Study No 47 looks at an example of successful joint working by eight partner organisations at Mill Rise, a new-build Extra Care scheme in Staffordshire (see document below). Managed...

Marketing Extra Care Housing

The objective of this Housing LIN report is to: explore the techniques deployed by Extra Care Housing (ECH) developers/providers in the marketing of ECH across all sectors establish what providers...

Implementing an Extra Care Housing Strategy in Oxfordshire - Delivering System Change

Housing LIN Case Study No39 - This case study offers an overview of Oxfordshire County Council's experience in putting their Extra Care Housing Strategy into practice, drawing on interviews with key...

Derbyshire Extra Care Housing Strategy

Published by Derbyshire County Council, describing the local vision, mapping supply, demand and need, models for extra care and implementation plan.

Developing Extra Care housing in Cheshire through public/private finance - the PFI route

A Housing LIN Case Study No23 describes how Cheshire County Council developed robust partnerships to develop Extra Care Housing and made the best use of public/private finance to meet their strategic...

Shared Equity - using the Private Finance Initiative to boost extra care housing

Published by Housing LIN and 4ps this Report describes three projects in which the Private Finance Initiative (PFI) has been used to procure extra care housing. An overview of PFI is provided, how it...

Estimating future requirements for Extra Care housing in Swindon

A Housing LIN Case Study No21 describing how Swindon Borough Council developed and used a tool to help inform a strategy for housing, support and care for older people. The tool examines the gap between...

How to get an Extra Care programme in practice

This Housing LIN Case study No6 describes how a two tier local authority went from having no extra care provision to developing a programme. It describes the whole process from deciding to replace some...

Elderly people and private Extra Care - housing needs and aspirations

This is a presentation made to a Housing LIN seminar summarising the implications of changing demographics on the demand for extra care housing. In particular it considers the impact of a more sophisticated...

Extra Care strategic development in East Sussex

A Housing LIN Case Study No2 describing key issues of partnership-based strategic planning for extra care. Two schemes are described and different management models briefly discussed.

Extra Care strategic development in North Yorkshire

Housing LIN Case Study No1 - A snapshot view of partnership-based strategic planning for extra care in North Yorkshire, highlighting the variety of issues that need consideration in a large and mostly...

A Framework for an Oxfordshire Extra Care Housing Strategy

Published by Oxfordshire County Council this report reviews the demand for extra care, desired outcomes, the possible models and financing. It makes recommendations about the approach that should be...