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Affordable Housing Conference

Date 8 June 2011
Duration 1 Day
Price GBP 489 + VAT
Location London
Venue Prospero House (Etc Venues)
Registration 9.00-9.30
Close of Seminar 4.30
Our code 36539
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What is this conference about?


This conference will examine various approaches to the provision of affordable housing by the new Government which will recently have been elected. It will look at the practical implications of the Community Infrastructure Levy, viability assessments, land availability appraisals and the Matthew Taylor Review; as well as the current Government's strategic housing policy objectives to ensure that everyone has the chance to live in a decent home, which they can afford in a place where they want to live.

Who should attend?


  • Local authority planners
  • Strategic planners
  • Those working in the commercial housing market
  • Housing association professionals
  • Representatives of community organisations

Benefits of attending


This one-day conference will help you:

  1. Hear the latest changes in legislation which will affect planners
  2. Understand the role of the planning system in building affordable housing
  3. Learn how the Matthew Taylor Review and the Government's response has affected rural affordable housing
  4. Hear from experienced practitioners on economic viability assessments
  5. Look at the role of the HCA with example projects

Conference programme

This programme will be updated for 2011 and may include:

9.00 Registration and coffee

9.30 Welcome and introduction by the Chair

9.40 Legislative update

  • New government position
  • An update on recent changes in powers, policies and practice with an impact on affordable housing
  • The roles of planning in delivering affordable housing in the recession
  • Who will pay?

10.20 Community Infrastructure Levy

  • After the dust settles: CIL or the 'local tariff'?
  • The key differences between CIL and the local tariff
  • Affordable housing developments exempt from both - could this encourage greater on-site provision?
  • The scaling back of S106 under both - Labour to 'necessary', 'directly related' and 'reasonable'; Conservatives to 'site-specific remediation' and 'adaptation'
  • What happens now, what do LPAs need to do/produce next?

11.00 Coffee and networking

11.20 Affordable housing, regeneration and 'place' - the role of the HCA

  • The HCA's roles and responsibilities
  • The HCA business models: delivering through the recession
  • Working with local partners: the single conversation
  • Example projects and programmes

12.00 Economic viability tool

  • Economic outlook and its effect on housing demand
  • Housing market outlook
  • Development viability
  • Affordable housing provision
  • HCA Economic Appraisal Tool (EAT) and how it works

12.40 Panel discussion

1.00 Lunch

2.00 Academic strategic review

  • New Government - new directions?
  • Thirty years of technical fixes and still no nearer a solution to the affordable rural housing challenge?
  • Why do we have an affordability problem? And who benefits from its perpetuation?
  • Sustainability, social justice and affordable housing

2.40 Delivery issues from a planning perspective

  • Getting the policy right - evidence base and examples of sound core strategies
  • Principles of scheme specific negotiation
  • Affordable housing as part of a wider shopping list: is this an issue?
  • Dealing with change over time: at policy and scheme negotiation stage
  • Monitoring: what happens when realism meets aspiration

3.20 The practicalities of affordable rural housing

  • Rural housing within the context of planning for sustainable rural communities, and the Taylor Report (and rural coalition)
  • Delivering affordable housing in practice
  • Mixed schemes with market developers: is the model broken?
  • Exception sites: flawed but still working
  • Community-based models: CLTs, LHTs etc
  • Conclusions and prospects for the future

4.00 Panel discussion

4.20 Chair's closing comments

4.30 Close of conference

Quotes from previous delegates


q 'All of the speakers were excellent. The best RTPI Conference I have been to'

q 'A very good overview of current issues and changes to policy framework from a well informed setup of experts in their field'

q 'A good course'

q 'A very interesting, topical, useful and heartening conference'

q 'Excellent – I enjoyed it'

CPD requirements

This event is intended to help RTPI members with their CPD requirements.

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In-house training

In-house training can be presented exclusively for your organisation on any subject in the planning and development field, including management skills. Training is individually tailored to meet the specific needs of your organisation .

To discuss your in-house requirements please contact the in-house team on 0845 076 0679 or e-mail incompany@rtpiconferences.co.uk

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