Kent Forum Implementation Progress Plan
The Kent Forum delegated implementation of the Housing Strategy to the Kent Housing Group (KHG) and Kent Planning Officers Group (KPOG). KHG and KPOG have developed an implementation plan, based on the recommendations contained within the Strategy. This plan has been endorsed by Kent Joint Chief Executives and the Kent Forum and can be found here. Progress against the plan will be monitored by the KHG Executive Board and reported bi-annually to Kent Joint Executives and the Kent Forum.
KFHS Implementation Plan
Current Implementation Examples:
Rural Homes: supporting Kent’s rural communities
Kent Housing Group has developed a new cross-County Protocol to help deliver affordable local needs housing in rural parts of Kent and Medway. Rural Homes: supporting Kent’s rural communities The Kent Rural Housing Protocol was developed as a direct result of a recommendation within the Kent Forum Housing Strategy, which identified a lack of affordability of housing in rural areas as a key concern for Kent.
The Protocol aims to encourage a consistent, pragmatic approach to affordable rural local needs housing development across the County, to help to increase the delivery of such housing in rural areas and enable rural communities and businesses in Kent to thrive and prosper.
It provides advice and guidance on issues such as identifying local need, acquiring suitable land and engaging and working with local communities to overcome any barriers to new housing. The Protocol was launched by the Bishop of Dover on 6th June in Egerton, alongside the opening of new rural housing scheme in the village.
Older Adults Work:
The Kent Forum Housing Strategy recommended that research be carried out into housing for older people. DTZ and the Social Innovation Lab for Kent were commissioned to undertake quantitative and qualitative research into existing and future housing provision for, and aspirations of, older people. This report was completed in September 2011 and contained 3 key recommendations to try to ensure that the homes we build now are fit for purpose in the future, to enable the better delivery of homes for older people and to assist older people in making to right housing choices. A copy of the report can be found using this link Better Homes: Older People's Housing Needs and Aspirations
This reported is supported by a more detailed insight paper Activmob Insight Paper and 5 working papers which can be found here:
Working Paper 1 - Older Persons Accommodation Trends; Working Paper 2 - Review of Housing Need in Existing Policy Documents; Working Paper 3 - Projecting Future Housing Need; Working Paper 4 - Survey of Planning Practitioners; Working Paper 5 - Consultation with Developers
Social Innovation Lab Kent (SILK)
SILK were commissioned by the Joint Policy and Planning Board (JPPB) to undertake ethnographic research into the impabt of access to housing in the resettlement of ex-prisoners and the role housing can play in helping to reduce re-offending. A copy of the report can be found here: Houses as Homes Report The findings from the report are being taken forward by the JPPB and the Kent Intergrated Offender Management Board.
Last updated: 05 April 2012