Putting people at the heart of new housing development: Coproducing the place we call home
This Best Practice Guide, published by East of England LGA, features case studies demonstrating integrated working and a high level of coproduction drawn from across the eastern region and further afield from a variety of organisations.
It focusses on new housing developments that have been selected by their Eastern Regional Housing Working Group and includes some leading edge examples.
The Guide covers best practice in the development of new housing supply across all tenures:
- owner occupied
- private rented
- social rented
- general needs housing
- independent living
- and supported housing.
They want to ensure that in the East all new housing is fit for the future, and that people of all ages can access homes that will adapt and change with them as they age or develop physical or other disabilities.
ADASS East commissioned this work after identifying housing and more specifically ‘developing a regional approach to housing’ as one of the eleven priorities for care market development in their ‘Statement of Regional Priorities for Care Market Development (opens new window)’ June 2022.
This was in recognition of the important part housing plays in helping people to remain healthy, well, independent and happy in their homes as well as helping to shape thriving communities. The Priorities were developed together with people with lived experience of Adult Social Care (ACS) services.
The Guide offers partners examples of best practice from the East and further afield to inform and encourage effective local partnerships and collaborative and inclusive delivery models.
It is hoped that this best practice guide will mark the start of a new era of partnership working as well as a fresh dialogue with the aim of ensuring we start putting our people front and centre and at the heart of all new housing development.