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Place, Regeneration and Housing Committee
Thursday, 29th February 2024 at 11:00am

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Myles Larrington, Committee Services Officer (West Yorkshire Combined Authority)
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1 Apologies for Absence

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2 Declaration of Disclosable Pecuniary Interests

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3 Exempt Information - Possible Exclusion of the Press and Public

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4 Minutes of the meeting held on 26 October 2023

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Place Minutes - 26 October 2023 - DRAFT

Mr Tamsin Hart Jones (Private Sector Representative)
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5 Chair's Update

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Myles Larrington, Committee Services Officer (West Yorkshire Combined Authority)
Cllr Helen Hayden (Leeds City Council)
Stephen Moore
Mr Tamsin Hart Jones (Private Sector Representative)
Andy Wallhead, Advisory Representative (WY Housing Partnership)
Guilherme Rodrigues Officer (West Yorkshire Combined Authority)
Peter Glover, Officer (West Yorkshire Combined Authority)
Justin Wilson, Officer (West Yorkshire Combined Authority)
Helen Foreman
Kate Thompson
Rebecca Greenwood, Officer (West Yorkshire Combined Authority)
Lisa Littlefair (Private Sector Representative)
Ben Aspinall (Private Sector Representative)
Cllr Ben Burton (York Council)
Cllr Michael Graham (Wakefield Council)
Richard Butterfield, Advisory Representative (Historic England)
Jennifer Connolly, Officer (West Yorkshire Combined Authority)
Cathy Elliot, Advisory Representative (NHS West Yorkhire Integrated Care Board)
Alison Gillespie, Officer (West Yorkshire Combined Authority)
Liz Hunter, Director (West Yorkshire Combined Authority)
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6 Monitoring Indicators

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Cathy Elliot, Advisory Representative (NHS West Yorkhire Integrated Care Board)
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Peter Glover, Officer (West Yorkshire Combined Authority)
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Guilherme Rodrigues Officer (West Yorkshire Combined Authority)
Guilherme Rodrigues Officer (West Yorkshire Combined Authority)
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Cllr Helen Hayden (Leeds City Council)
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Guilherme Rodrigues Officer (West Yorkshire Combined Authority)
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Cllr Moses Crook Kirklees Council
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Guilherme Rodrigues Officer (West Yorkshire Combined Authority)
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Andy Wallhead, Advisory Representative (WY Housing Partnership)
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Rebecca Greenwood, Officer (West Yorkshire Combined Authority)
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Richard Butterfield, Advisory Representative (Historic England)
Cathy Elliot, Advisory Representative (NHS West Yorkhire Integrated Care Board)
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7 Project Approvals

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Item 7 - Project Approvals

Kate Thompson
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Cllr Alex Ross-Shaw (Bradford Council)
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Ben Aspinall (Private Sector Representative)
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Lisa Littlefair (Private Sector Representative)
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Cathy Elliot, Advisory Representative (NHS West Yorkhire Integrated Care Board)
Kate Thompson
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7 a) BHF Bradford Road Idle (Bradford)

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Item 7 - Appendix 2 - BHF Bradford Road Idle - Business Case Summary

Kate Thompson

7 b) BHF Elland Town Hall (Calderdale)

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Item 7 - Appendix 3 - BHF Elland Town Hall - Business Case Summary

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Richard Butterfield, Advisory Representative (Historic England)
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Ben Aspinall (Private Sector Representative)
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Kate Thompson
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7 c) BHF Hough Top Court (Leeds)

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Item 7 - Appendix 4 - BHF Hough Top Court - Business Case Summary

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Cllr Helen Hayden (Leeds City Council)
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7 d) Kirkby Road (Oaklands) (Wakefield)

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Item 7 - Appendix 5 - BHF Kirkby Road (Oaklands) - Business Case Summary

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Cllr Ben Burton (York Council)
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Ben Aspinall (Private Sector Representative)
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Kate Thompson
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Cllr Michael Graham (Wakefield Council)
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7 e) BHF Leeds City Village Phase 1 (Leeds)

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Item 7 - Appendix 6 - BHF Leeds City Village Phase 1 - Business Case Summary

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7 f) BHF Middlecross Extra Care (Leeds)

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Item 7 - Appendix 7 - BHF Middlecross Extra Care - Business Case Summary

7 g) BHF Parkwood Mills (Kirklees)

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Item 7 - Appendix 8 - BHF Parkwood Mills - Business Case Summary

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7 f) BHF Middlecross Extra Care (Leeds)

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Item 7 - Appendix 7 - BHF Middlecross Extra Care - Business Case Summary

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7 g) BHF Parkwood Mills (Kirklees)

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Item 7 - Appendix 8 - BHF Parkwood Mills - Business Case Summary

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7 h) BHF Plane Street (Kirklees)

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Item 7 - Appendix 9 - BHF Plane Street - Business Case Summary

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7 i) BHF St Cecilia Street (Leeds)

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Item 7 - Appendix 10 - BHF St Cecilia Street - Business Case Summary

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8 West Yorkshire Housing Strategy 2040

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Rebecca Greenwood, Officer (West Yorkshire Combined Authority)
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Andy Wallhead, Advisory Representative (WY Housing Partnership)
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Mr Tamsin Hart Jones (Private Sector Representative)
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Stephen Moore
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Cllr Helen Hayden (Leeds City Council)
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Cllr Helen Hayden (Leeds City Council)
Richard Butterfield, Advisory Representative (Historic England)
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Cllr Helen Hayden (Leeds City Council)
Jennifer Connolly, Officer (West Yorkshire Combined Authority)
Cathy Elliot, Advisory Representative (NHS West Yorkhire Integrated Care Board)
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Cllr Helen Hayden (Leeds City Council)
Lisa Littlefair (Private Sector Representative)
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Rebecca Greenwood, Officer (West Yorkshire Combined Authority)
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9 Introduction to West Yorkshire Integrated Care Board and links to health

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10 Dementia-ready Housing Taskforce Update

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Cllr Ben Burton (York Council)
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Helen Foreman
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Rebecca Greenwood, Officer (West Yorkshire Combined Authority)
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Helen Foreman
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11 High Street Heritage Action Zone Programme

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Cllr Helen Hayden (Leeds City Council)
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12 Digital Blueprint Draft

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Richard Butterfield, Advisory Representative (Historic England)
Justin Wilson, Officer (West Yorkshire Combined Authority)
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Richard Butterfield, Advisory Representative (Historic England)
Stephen Moore
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Cathy Elliot, Advisory Representative (NHS West Yorkhire Integrated Care Board)
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Justin Wilson, Officer (West Yorkshire Combined Authority)
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13 Date of the Next Meeting

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right then, so thanks for joining us at the place, Regeneration and Housing Committee I'm stepping in for Councillor Jeffreys is not here today, so just before overdoing introductions and say who we are some new faces around the table we'll just get some of the formal bits done first which is agenda item 1, which is apologies for absence Miles do have any of those apologies for absence had been received from

Myles Larrington, Committee Services Officer (West Yorkshire Combined Authority) - 0:00:48

Councillor Denise Jeffery Chair,

Cllr Scott Patient Calderdale Council - 0:00:55

thank you very much, just the next one is the declaration of disclosable pecuniary interests, and it'd be good to know today, been having some, quite you know, from project approvals, just think beep, and if you've got any connection to any of those in any way possible, doesn't matter if you don't think don't don't think about it now, but if it comes up during the items and do shout out,

1 Apologies for Absence

2 Declaration of Disclosable Pecuniary Interests

3 Exempt Information - Possible Exclusion of the Press and Public

there this exempt information, there are no items today requiring exclusion of the press and public, so we can press on with that a number 4 is the minutes of the meeting held back on the 26th of October 2023, so just to ask the committee to review and agree those minutes.

4 Minutes of the meeting held on 26 October 2023

looking around the table, it doesn't look like anyone wants to pick, 0

Mr Tamsin Hart Jones (Private Sector Representative) - 0:01:47

then we go obviously to have the it is just a declaration of interest on the brownfield housing fund agenda item, there are three projects there which have homes England funding involved, I just wanted to declare that interest.

5 Chair's Update

Cllr Scott Patient Calderdale Council - 0:01:57

thanks for that and we'll make sure that's noted and it's OK, so I'll move in on him. I'm appreciating that that that's approval of those minutes and we can and we can move on such as update so yeah, we've got a number of new faces here only today, including the Deputy Chair. There's some other faces who've been moved around, perhaps in portfolio places just thought you know the represent, a representative from the West Yorkshire Housing Partnership, Helen Lennon, has now left the committee and has been succeeded by Andy Wellhead appeal introduce himself properly also expressed thanks to Masood Ahmed

for his dedicated service and and obviously his contributions have been invaluable and we warmly welcome his successor, you have already had chance to speak to on numerous occasions, mostly cook and you'll introduce yourself shortly, I'm sure you'll take a fresh perspective of things and we always welcome that as a committee and also welcome then and at Chelsea for before we do that we'll do actually a formal round of introductions and we'll start with yourself if that's OK.

Good morning, man Manzarek, Joseph and me, I am a private sector member of the mayor's business advisory board and run an organisation called Davidson equal, it trains underrepresented adults for roles in tech.

Myles Larrington, Committee Services Officer (West Yorkshire Combined Authority) - 0:03:28

my name smells, errington, I'm the Committee Services Officer for this committee.

Cllr Helen Hayden (Leeds City Council) - 0:03:33

and Councillor Helen Hayden, and Executive Member for sustainable development and infrastructure at Leeds City Council.

Stephen Moore - 0:03:39

Good morning, Stephen Moore and the national operations manager for CityFibre.

Mr Tamsin Hart Jones (Private Sector Representative) - 0:03:47

morning, all Tamsin Health Jones, I am an assistant director at homes, England.

Andy Wallhead, Advisory Representative (WY Housing Partnership) - 0:03:50

money I really am, and he will have him here as the Chair of the West Yorkshire Housing Partnership by my day job and Chief Executive W D H, which is a large housing association.

Guilherme Rodrigues Officer (West Yorkshire Combined Authority) - 0:04:02

Good morning and general duties are part of the research and intelligence team of the West Yorkshire Combined Authority.

Peter Glover, Officer (West Yorkshire Combined Authority) - 0:04:10

Good morning, Peter Glover also from the research and intelligence team at the Combined Authority.

Good morning Nicolas coming out a doughnut manager at Brompton golden fund.

Justin Wilson, Officer (West Yorkshire Combined Authority) - 0:04:24

morning, everyone Justin Wilson, head of environment and infrastructure at Barsham authority.

Helen Foreman - 0:04:31

if moaning Helen from an urban design manager at the Combined Authority.

Kate Thompson - 0:04:35

running Kay Thompson head of economic implementation combined authority.

on them, Rebecca Greenwood, head of housing at West, Yorkshire

Ms. Rebecca Greenwood, Officer (West Yorkshire Combined Authority) - 0:04:45

Combined Authority.

Lisa Littlefair (Private Sector Representative) - 0:04:48

can I buy a pen Aspinall 19 directive Aspinall Verdi, I'm a private sector rep.

Ben Aspinall (Private Sector Representative) - 0:04:56

pile at least a little fair and City's director, Mark McDonald, and also a private sites representative.

Cllr Ben Burton (York Council) - 0:05:04

yeah, on an Councillor Member and from City of York Council.

Councillor Walshaw portfolio holder for regeneration, planning and transport, and Bradford Council.

morning, Councillor MØ, Cook, portfolio holder for housing highways and transport Kirklees.

Cllr Michael Graham (Wakefield Council) - 0:05:21

Goldie and Joan Connolly associate director for improving population health, and I worked jointly between the West Yorkshire Integrated Care Board and the West Yorkshire Combined Authority.

Richard Butterfield, Advisory Representative (Historic England) - 0:05:33

warning everyone, I'm Richard Butterfield, I represent the north-east and Yorkshire region of historic England.

Jennifer Connolly, Officer (West Yorkshire Combined Authority) - 0:05:37

Good morning, everyone, I'm Cathy, Elliot and Chair of NHS West Yorkshire Integrated Care Board and Deputy Chair of West Yorkshire Health and Care Partnership, and I'm a new attendee for this committee.

Cathy Elliot, Advisory Representative (NHS West Yorkhire Integrated Care Board) - 0:05:51

I have you on Councillor Michael Graham portfolio holder for regenerate we feel council nightmare.

Alison Gillesbie headed place and environment policy at the West

Alison Gillespie, Officer (West Yorkshire Combined Authority) - 0:06:00

Yorkshire Combined Authority.

and listen to her director of policing environment in place at the West Yorkshire Combined Authority, this is my usual bit right, I

Liz Hunter, Director (West Yorkshire Combined Authority) - 0:06:10

please use the system, because not only does it help people here, but also when we are live-streaming this, so the camera will zoom to you if you still got your my camera, not speaking the cameras will still be on you, but you've all done so well as we go around the table. Thank you for that. You are all very welcome and you cannot attend for

Cllr Scott Patient Calderdale Council - 0:06:27

all of your microphone Attica Rogan, on that

6 Monitoring Indicators

k thank you, and could see Whalen, especially new Members moving on to agenda Item number 6, the monitoring indicators so yeah, this paper is gonna, provide a bit of a update on indicators already agreed by the

Cathy Elliot, Advisory Representative (NHS West Yorkhire Integrated Care Board) - 0:06:46

Committee. The purpose of this item is to provide a bit of context of the discussions. It also claims to respond to points raised by the Committee that lets me in, and I know I know this is always a very

Cllr Scott Patient Calderdale Council - 0:06:58

interested agenda item, and people have got a lot of thoughts and questions on it, so without further do I am going to hand over to you Peter, to flesh this out and let us know where we're up

Peter Glover, Officer (West Yorkshire Combined Authority) - 0:07:09

actually, travellers can hand over to Gay Rodriguez, who is the author of the paper, thank you, Peter.

Cllr Scott Patient Calderdale Council - 0:07:16

Guilherme Rodrigues Officer (West Yorkshire Combined Authority) - 0:07:18

thank you very much, so I said very share the Chair, the the purpose of the paper is to provide the most up-to-date indicators agreed with the Committee.

we report them when new data is available, so this time we include six different indicators, net additional dwellings, private rents or household energy efficiency, estimates on fuel poverty and indicators on digital connectivity, both mobile 4G and gigabyte capable coverage, on top of that we added two new indicators that were published by D-lock around the completions and housing starts of affordable housing.

so the the the key takeaways from the data, so starting with a net additional dwellings, they declined in the last financial year, but they have been relatively high for the last decade anyway, so net additional dwellings, they they cover are new-build conversions and change of use tracking them is quite important to understand if we are delivering.

the housing provision to meet our targets, having the right homes in the right places.

and in the in 2022 2023 financial year there was roughly a 6,400 net additional dwellings.

roughly 1,000 below the previous year, which was particularly I at the last decade.

this is likely to be related by cost factors, we know it's not only materials, but the cost of finance interest rates rose in recent years and those factors are likely to affect both the supply of housing, the the cost of prospecting, but also the demand of it on the credit part of it.

in terms of affordable housing completions we got the highest number registered since 2010 2011, so the like now publishes data for us to better understand it or affordable housing includes social rent, affordable rent shared ownership among other groups these three groups represent most of it currently so in 22 23 there was around 1,500 affordable housing completions so it was quite significant share of the total net additional dwellings in the area.

the was the highest number recorded in the last 11 years and most of them were affordable rent and shared ownership, around 75% of all of them.

in terms of housing starts, which gives us a little bit of a potential picture of the next years, it was not as strong as the year before.

there was around still 1,140 new, affordable housing starts in 22 23 is around half of the previous year, but it was very strong and we see that in the housing completions being very high in the year afterwards, so again could be related to cost factors and there are there are projects that haven't started yet but will probably be collected in the next set of data we get from the next year like the brownfield losing funds so we expect

to have more

Erica probably likely to be a recovery then on on the market, on the private market is very important to track how it is performing, so in the last five years our estimates suggest rents rising above the national average

in most districts Calderdale, being the exception, and they were rising around 20%.

significantly above the England average, which is something quite recently in previous years.

or before 2016, roughly we haven't been observing that trend in terms of

also energy efficiency, we have been rerun our internal estimates on the data as we identified some issues with the official data provided by D-lock, and we do observe that West Yorkshire housing stock is less efficient than the national average, fortunately because of the age of the stock so wrong 38% of our dwellings are registered, MBC C or above considered efficient.

below the national average on all the districts are the average is below England's average, with Leeds having the highest won, around 42% of dwellings considered efficient the new dwelling, so we do see that most of them are efficient, as we would expect.

93% of them are are mbc C or above it's slightly below England's average, but we are doing it as investigations to understand if there is any issue with the data or whether, if it is driven by a convergence and other types of change of use.

in terms of fuel poverty, we have seen an increase in recent years with increase of of of of energy prices due to macroeconomic shocks,

Guilherme Rodrigues Officer (West Yorkshire Combined Authority) - 0:12:41

and with the new energy price gap we expect our estimates for energy efficiency to decline from its peak at 29% of households being in fuel poverty.

but is still around

six books, 6%, points, it's levels in late 2021, so prices have been stabilising, but our estimates for poverty still show higher levels of poor for poverty than before its shock, but in a positive trend.

in terms of digital connectivity.

focusing on full fibre, 70% of all premises in West Yorkshire are covered significantly above the national average of 62% Calderdale, being the only local authority below the national average, but improving in the last year, and this is driven by being more rural than the other districts in terms of 4G coverage.

all districts have a coverage above the national average or, with the exception of Wakefield, all of the other ones are above 90% but still Wakefield, it's slightly below 8%, but, above thing, with painkillers efforts on digital connectivity there has been made progress and,

and that's all from me, thank you very much.

Cllr Scott Patient Calderdale Council - 0:14:04

thank you so much lots of data there, some good, some some, not so good, but I'm sure members of the committee will have some questions for you on the looking around the room.

I guess I would say just to kick things off,

clearly the

the issues around fuel poverty are like distressing, and one is something and a key focus of various, and probably gonna be some cut through to perhaps some of the discussions we have on health lately and forging stronger connections with our health partners.

but I guess I guess good to see, in terms of people being able to access data, that the stats there around connectivity and full fibre and 4G are cheering in terms of them.

using digital isolation, perhaps, or perhaps some of those communities who do want to reach out, is there anyone in the room who wants to

Cllr Helen Hayden (Leeds City Council) - 0:14:59

pick up anything Councillor Hayden, thank you, Chair n, I'm just wondering about the parts going forward and the link between household energy efficiency and fuel poverty and the stats there with the PC ratings, etc and then if there's a piece of work to do there with who is in fuel poverty and what type of house they're living in and then of course of the health implications of the of living in a

in a drafty damp cold house, the link then to to, but they do come after each other in the rapper, and I'm just curious about the link to fuel poverty, whether it needs just energy prices or the fact that you have to heat houses very drafting.

Cllr Scott Patient Calderdale Council - 0:15:42

Caitlin queue don't know whether you want to come back in on that one.

Guilherme Rodrigues Officer (West Yorkshire Combined Authority) - 0:15:47

source of energy, the energy poverty estimates that we do, they they they, they tried to capture both factor, so the which Bureau, but also the percentage of people living in drafting inefficient housing, and this has been because there is plenty of new data that could be analyzed by ourselves, we are doing a lot of work trying to understand how much we can take from the data.

from the Roade than below our estimates and have a better inform analysis on on the efficiency of the dwellings.

Cllr Scott Patient Calderdale Council - 0:16:22

and I wonder if, from once again, some of that might be picked up later in in in terms of the discussions we have at A Councillor Cook.

thanks Chair I, I wanted to ask a question about the again about the PCC, a comparison with West Yorkshire to the national picture, because I was previously aware of the unique situation we have in Coakley's

Cllr Moses Crook Kirklees Council - 0:16:42

housing because of our old stock, but I didn't realise that it translated to a systemic issue across West Yorkshire and I I understand there are some unique factors here to do. You know propensity for back-to-back housing and so forth, but I wondered if we had any figures or just rough estimates of the magnitude of the investment required across West Yorkshire to bring us just back in line with the national picture in terms of the energy performance of housing, I know how much it's gonna cost for Kirk, Lizzie's housing portfolio, and it's it's it's eye-watering. If we understood perhaps the magnitude of the problem, it might be something that we could drive politically to to to to

to ask for investment to help meet the challenge, thanks.

that's helpful reflection on below.

Cllr Scott Patient Calderdale Council - 0:17:25

Guilherme Rodrigues Officer (West Yorkshire Combined Authority) - 0:17:29

at the moment we don't have those estimates but, as I said, this is are apart that we are getting better data and we are getting better understandings over time we're trying to build a picture as informative as possible so we know the position we know what they're currently busy on which could be improved on any the total number of dwellings with a clear understanding on the costs part I am not aware that we have that information now, but it's possible probably to the subject in the future.

Cllr Scott Patient Calderdale Council - 0:17:58

fantastic and Andy yeah G just on that, but I think most of the social

Andy Wallhead, Advisory Representative (WY Housing Partnership) - 0:18:01

housing providers are probably other information that you say Kirklees Avenue, and certainly we have that and I'm guessing most of the big housing associations will and the local authorities probably worry it won't be, as obviously in the private sector, so there'll be a lot of people living in private rented where the stock isn't come to A B C C and probably will have that, but you probably could people together for the for the social housing sector.

Cllr Scott Patient Calderdale Council - 0:18:29

brilliant Rebecca, thank you to just it's worth raising on that point that through the better hands hub work that we are doing.

Ms. Rebecca Greenwood, Officer (West Yorkshire Combined Authority) - 0:18:35

all the energy savings Trust who are working with who presented to climate committee, I think last week are doing some work out on exactly that point that you've raised to look at sort of costings of what it will cost to increase energy efficiency of our homes, various different standards, we can come back to the committee with timescales for some of that, but it probably just adds to some of these points so that that is actually work that is ongoing at Combined Authority, say something we're thinking about one of commercial motive

it's probably actually him worth having a look at the minutes for that

Cllr Scott Patient Calderdale Council - 0:19:03

meeting because we were discussing it in for details to be.

be honest, is there anyone else that wants to pick up on this just to remind us the pupil, which is obviously a moveable feast, because data changes from one month to the next one is we're delivering projects, I'm sure fellow elected members and certainly for me in Calderdale the amount of them.

casework can get in about roads being dug or dug up for a gig or gigabyte which is Grey, it shows that the roll-out is happening at pace.

café,

Richard Butterfield, Advisory Representative (Historic England) - 0:19:35

thank you and you've referenced it twice. I thought I'd respond and the point on fuel poverty and fuel efficient housing, and it is a really key thing for us because within the NHS will be looking at respiratory disease is how it is affecting certain communities setting

Cathy Elliot, Advisory Representative (NHS West Yorkhire Integrated Care Board) - 0:19:51

a community. So I think that cross-referencing, which is one of the reasons why I've come to join this committee and working with my colleague James Connolly, I think this is something that we can do. Some cross-referencing on and our colleagues in Leeds can get down to street level as well as postcode level and looking at certain health issues, and I think that cross-referencing would be really helpful.

so we can take that away to consider

Cllr Scott Patient Calderdale Council - 0:20:16

perfect, thank you very much for that, I am and thank you very much Gourmand, but hopefully we will see improvements where we need to see improvements and see reductions where we need to see reductions so much appreciated thank you very much.

and we need to just note that anything we've done that.

with with success, so moving on to a really exciting item, which is all of the capital approvals,

7 Project Approvals

and the great thing is this coverage of every district within these capital approval, so something for everyone, I wonder if I can ask, I don't know whether it's Patricia, Patricia Nicholas.

it will be me Chair so K Thompson right, fantastic, thank you very much for interjecting just to give a brief outline of each scheme in order, and then we can pick up questions per item if that's OK, thank you,

thank you Chair, I'll just provide a quick bit of context for the new committee members. So the brownfield housing fund comes with a government set specific set of CA criteria which the prog projects need to meet in order to access the fund. These include sites being designated as brownfield projects, being Green Book compliant so

Kate Thompson - 0:21:39

that's Treasury Green Book compliant with a minimum benefit Cost ratio of 1. They need to evidence market failure to demonstrate they cannot proceed without public sector funding and homes must start on site before March 2025 2. So to date the Combined Authority has committed funding for 18 projects which together equate to just under 4,000 new homes, including just over 1,400 affordable homes, and with a further nine projects are under consideration at Committee today. These represent a further 1,100 new homes for the region, including over 350 affordable homes, so subject to approvals and finalisation of contractual terms, the regions well on the way to meeting the delivery targets set by government of enabling 5,400 new homes by March 25. So I'm as you've outlined, to chair the the.

the business case summaries are in the pack, so I'll only provide a high level of detail, given the number we've got to come through today,

so I will start with Bradford Road IDO, the scheme will remediate 0.4 hectares of brownfield land, develop 51 specialist senior living apartments on the former Blakelaw Works in Idle, including 36 one bedroom apartments and 15 2 bedroom apartments, the Bill will use modern methods of construction, will include for photovoltaic panels on the roofs to reduce emissions and fuel costs dislocated on a main

Kate Thompson - 0:23:06

bus route and homeowners will have access to an enterprise car club to promote sustainable travel and reduce reliance on a personal car.

the benefit Cost ratio is 1.3 to 1 this is categorised as acceptable value for money total scheme cost is 10.7 8 3 million, so approval is sought today to proceed through decision Point 2 to Full business justification Case and work to commence on activity 5 delivery together with a funding approval of 341,500 from the brownfield housing fund upper etc

Cllr Scott Patient Calderdale Council - 0:23:42

with that thank you very much, I'm sure, if any colleagues, perhaps specifically from Bradford, if you also want to talk about that looking in your direction, Alex thanks, Julia I think it's always good to see applications coming from the private sector as well as the resources at Bradford Council scheme.

Cllr Alex Ross-Shaw (Bradford Council) - 0:24:05

but nobody area near in our constituency, and it's quite close to quite a few public amenities as well, and as officers had been on public transport routes, so hopefully it's in a good sustainable location for amenity as well with local shops in the area so pleased to see it come forward and it's a kind of unused brownfield site so it's bringing it back into use and we've got quite good record of in Bradford and it's good to see that continue.

fantastic.

Cllr Scott Patient Calderdale Council - 0:24:28

that sounds great and I hope they go, sorry about that, it's like

Ben Aspinall (Private Sector Representative) - 0:24:34

Uber, yes, thank you, care and thanks care and I just wanted to expand on not on this specific project necessary, but on case preamble for the introduction for the so that the context for the new members could and I think it might be helpful to clarify a little bit more about the assurance framework.

we obviously work as a private sector PCSO I am not a e-voting.

member of this Committee,

but I think the things as I've read through all the papers are things I'm looking for things like land value and the profit element that are within the total cost envelopes and of the safe, I appreciate that they're not reported explicitly in in in these reports but I think,

that's the dead, it's dead to really really big costs are involved in any sort of capital development projects, so I think it's you might be able to expand K and Alexandra we've we've discussed that in the past and then I think the other things that and I was bearing in mind as I was reading through through these was,

really a different sort of ranges and responses to the climate emergency yeah. Some schemes can clearly perform better than others. I think that we're coming through and similarly in terms of the quantum of affordable housing and some 100% affordable housing schemes and some were doing nothing, and you know the understanding is perhaps one of the reasons why it is quite important, especially when you consider coughing you know land cost and so on are in the mix by a diamond warehouse that these are things that

I picked up in the background.

and also.

sorry, final pointless, I was always entirely clear where they.

you will be asked to contact with the local authority or you are contracting with a private sector entity or or or whatever, and obviously due diligence around who who who you, who who you contact with, and that's all irrelevant in terms of you know the profit margin if your private sector that is going to do anything without without a profit and he may be different drivers for public sector so that they're just generic comments really that but they I think they do apply across.

all in all the report, thank you, Chair yeah, thank you, and that's

Cllr Scott Patient Calderdale Council - 0:27:08

one, and that's I think really important scenes set in forever and he picked out specifically, I guess, how injecting policy and good policy specifically around climate is is being picked up and is a golden thread running through here whether it's having good connections place-making, photovoltaics or whether it's actually put in these developments in the centre of towns where those connections already are available so.

OK, I'm not seeing anyone else but based of surrogates, I am police,

Lisa Littlefair (Private Sector Representative) - 0:27:40

thank you Chair, and just to add to to Ben's I mean I know a lot of these are probably through planning at this stage so haven't had to consider it, but it's I just wanted to throw in biodiversity net gain as well as an important point that needs to be considered and put for all the schemes involved.

Cllr Scott Patient Calderdale Council - 0:27:56

very much so, it will be interesting to see how different local authorities and when the round, I'd taken approach, to buy a net gain, really within and beyond the boundaries of our projects. So I guess what I'm gonna do is just based on the team recommendations. I'm not gonna read them all out, but it's everyone happy to proceed if you can just throw your hands in the air if that's OK, maybe like you just don't care, Roger sorry, I said yeah

Cllr Scott Patient Calderdale Council - 0:28:23

OK, OK, thank you very much, so that's that one done moving on sorry.

Cathy Elliot, Advisory Representative (NHS West Yorkhire Integrated Care Board) - 0:28:31

I notice that you are looking at particularly, I think it's two senior living developments and we're looking at dementia friendly housing later or something else it oscillates before hemp, but how do you, through this funding programme, encourage good practice and consideration, particularly when you're identifying certain recommendations for this kind of housing development so I appreciate as Lisbeth sharing with me earlier this is later on in the process, but how can we encourage developers to think about the principles that are being identified?

Kate Thompson - 0:29:01

thank you sorry in anticipation, however, given the agenda today, we we did contact a couple of all project sponsors to ask them, had they factor in the dementia task force's recommendations into their plan. We only had feedback from one so far, which is Middle Cross, and I am pleased to confirm that whilst the that they won't be fully dementia ready, they have, however, supplied a long list of very positive responses to the the design criteria. So as part of the fund we can start to encourage new applicants

but recognising we are now heading towards the end of year, four of a five-year programme, and for us a lot of the the projects already through planning, because we need to get on stop or start on site before March 25, but working in parallel with colleagues on the policy side so Helen and Rebecca through the housing Strategy, it's something for future programmes that we can start to encourage and potentially in banked throughout.

7 a) BHF Bradford Road Idle (Bradford)

Cllr Scott Patient Calderdale Council - 0:30:18

that's brilliant and hopefully now that's been picked out and will be like to let something that can be embedded a little bit more into our thinking as we move forward, OK, thank you very much for that move it

Kate Thompson - 0:30:29

on to Elland town hall, thank you Chair.

7 b) BHF Elland Town Hall (Calderdale)

so as the name might apply, this projects involves the renovation and conversion of the Grade II listed former Ellon town hall, the scheme will produce 55 new rental homes, comprising 44 bombed and 11 2 bed apartments with refurbished commercial premises on the ground floor scheme is located centrally within the Ellon town centre conservation area and its progression has the potential to support the wider regeneration of the town which is also currently being supported through the future high streets funding from government,

the benefit Cost ratio is one to one which is categorised as acceptable value for money the total scheme cost is 7.2 4 3 million approval was sought to proceed through decision Point 4 for business case and work to commence on activity by delivery, together with a funding approval of 840,000 pounds from the brownfield housing fund.

Cllr Scott Patient Calderdale Council - 0:31:29

thank you very much for that coat, and the sunlight patch will probably be worth saying a few words Elance getting a fair bit of funding at the WRU at the moment with future high streets they obviously the train station package thing CA currently working its way through our systems and anic acid just just to pick out it's really good to say,

retrofit on an existing property being done and and and and making that work, and it's testament to the project to that experience to deliver the amount that it has.

creating new homes within the town core, I think, is vital to its regeneration and success of really pleased to see that I'm assuming no one else wants to come that, apart from myself up Richard.

Richard Butterfield, Advisory Representative (Historic England) - 0:32:10

do you take just a brief point, damaged brilliant or a landmark building at the Town Hall, and Alan can be brought back into economic use like that I'm really pleased to see the mix with.

how are residential on the upper floors, but also maintaining some retail food and beverage provision on the ground floor as well just to support the kind of life offer of the town as well, so it's really positive, and we've we've been involved with the conservation area management plan for that area as well, so it's all right to say all that's come together.

Cllr Scott Patient Calderdale Council - 0:32:41

thanks so much Richard and Beth.

I just wanted to to have confirmed that, is it correct my

Ben Aspinall (Private Sector Representative) - 0:32:47

understanding that there's no, it's all market rent is no affordable housing by virtue of the heritage?

the costs associated with the heritage buildings are correct.

Cllr Scott Patient Calderdale Council - 0:33:04

Katie, you gonna, come back on that, yes, apologies Charisse just

Kate Thompson - 0:33:09

checking my figures, I confirm there's no affordable within that.

7 c) BHF Hough Top Court (Leeds)

Cllr Scott Patient Calderdale Council - 0:33:16

OK, I am going to ask everyone if we can again based on the recommendations that poetry happy to proceed, a quick show of hands were perfect, thank you so much k, moving on to the next item, which is, I hope, of saying this round, re re how Top Court Hough and it was one of the two that's been corrected me, Councillor Hayden over tea OK.

Kate Thompson - 0:33:40

OK have to call Leeds, this scheme will develop 82 new-build Council homes and is therefore 100% affordable.

the site for development is the former Hough site High School, with the former school building having been demolished in the 2021 22 financial year, the project will be a blend of two, three and four bedroom houses and 1 and 2 bedroom apartments, the scheme does include eSOS heat pumps and has a no gas approach meaning no gas boilers will be installed at the properties.

EV charging points will be included in the development for all homes and car parking spaces for the apartments, the value for money assessment reflects benefit costs ratio of three to one, which represents a high value for money total scheme cost is 22.4 million and approval was sought to proceed through decision Point 2 to for business justification with work to commence on activity 5 delivery together with a funding approval 1.6 4 million from the Bramcote Housing Fund.

Cllr Scott Patient Calderdale Council - 0:34:44

thank you so much, any colleagues want to sweet Councillor Hope yeah I just really wanted to spot this and it's part of our council house.

Cllr Helen Hayden (Leeds City Council) - 0:34:52

cross, which is really proud that you know, we're gonna have 1,500 council houses built in the five-year period that we.

we aimed for.

and I know that this has taken a lot of development from the team to to bring forward, so I'm really excited to see it happening, thank you.

brilliant was like a really transformational project.

Cllr Scott Patient Calderdale Council - 0:35:18

again, looking for approval for the recommendations within their from people.

7 d) Kirkby Road (Oaklands) (Wakefield)

yeah, OK, thank you very much, Kay moving on which is Kirkby Road Oaklands.

Kate Thompson - 0:35:36

thank you Chair, so the scheme in Hemsworth's will deliver a total of 128 homes consisting of a blend of two, three and four bedroom houses and seven two bedroom bungalows the development will use energy efficient materials in the fabric of the buildings, including in the blocks, an installation to reduce energy loss and achieve the highest possible energy rating.

heating systems are intended to be based on air source, heat pumps and EV charging points will be installed at every property just like to point out, this is our first Smee applicants, so we're very excited to support them.

they are a local developer that employs local trades and includes an annual intake of apprentices, there are three apprenticeships as part of this scheme, the value for money assessment reflects the benefit benefit Cost ratio of 2.5 to 1 which represents high value for money the total scheme cost is 39.2 7 1 million and approval was sought to proceed through decision Point 2 to full full business case with work to commence on activity 5 together with a funding of approval of 1.2 5 7 million on the brownfield housing fund.

Cllr Scott Patient Calderdale Council - 0:36:53

fantastic, and we always like to see local job creation in them and economists working scale. I think Councillor Burton, not just at UFOs

Cllr Ben Burton (York Council) - 0:37:00

yeah, thank you. The A Scott loads of positives to escape, I think my my only question for obviously has no affordable provision and quite a high cost benefit return the owner, or could someone who, with experience or knowledge of the area and the scheme, speak to the kind of benefits of building a fully private market scheme in this area in terms of regeneration, because I think obviously you suspect that if it was offered forward for affordable housing, somebody might come forward for that purpose as well. So it's just interesting to get some

Cllr Scott Patient Calderdale Council - 0:37:34

more detail on that Case study. I think I'm gonna, bring in Benn first just before yeah yeah. I feel that that was going to be my points. While I was

Ben Aspinall (Private Sector Representative) - 0:37:41

thinking that you know the cost benefit ratio is quite high in the they sort of the for the funding, as per unit, is relatively low compared with some of the other ones and where there's an opportunity to work to maybe five further funding to deliver affordable housing on the site for the many reasons why there is none.

Cllr Scott Patient Calderdale Council - 0:38:03

feel free to come back, thank you Chair.

Kate Thompson - 0:38:07

I suppose I refer the committee back to the the principles of the fund.

which are focused on market failure to market failure in terms of viability gaps, whilst we did prioritise schemes based on the government criteria we have, where possible, tried to also bring in schemes which have a stronger element of affordable homes as well as green credentials so that was in the original a selection of projects for this fund inevitably we are not in control of the local planning process and affordable housing is set by the Local Planning Authority.

I would say this scheme has had a in its history, there's quite a history to the planning I understand of it.

quite a number of community benefits through Section 106, which the developer has put in upfront and prior to coming to the fund, so whilst we don't see affordable homes as a community benefit in this locality, that we, we have or will see a lot of other community benefits which were determined by the local planning authority,

Cllr Scott Patient Calderdale Council - 0:39:30

that's really helpful, I guess I'd probably add to that and say Well, local authorities.

thinking about.

my own place, where affordable, wasn't able to be built in.

in one location. We ring fence some of that, so we could deliver it in another location, so I'm sure different local authorities have differently different approaches to making sure that they can work, affordable housing in the round and perhaps not looking at it on an individual case basis, may maybe take a bit more holistic view, but take that one back to the ranch. OK thanks 0 sorry, Councillor Graham

Cllr Michael Graham (Wakefield Council) - 0:40:06

yeah, it was just to say I, I don't know the area to autographs, which is for our constituents Wakefield.

but just to really do welcome in the report that where there will be bungalows and there, I know that the demand for bungalows has exploded indefinitely in Hemsworth and around the area, there is a huge increase in searches and people want to live in them, so I think that will definitely be helping and also trying to point out the bird boxes and the the bat boxes which,

pay, you know, everyone banging on about everyone wants to see more of it and protecting nature biodiversity, so welcome that as well.

I do believe that we are very supportive of the Local Plan did highlight this area as a place for housing growth.

and I think we are looking at a secured an extra funding from VHF, along with this so.

Cllr Scott Patient Calderdale Council - 0:41:01

thank you, Councillor Graham, I'm not saying any more, and so once again can we take the approvals as as read and approve which show a hands on that.

7 e) BHF Leeds City Village Phase 1 (Leeds)

yeah, thank you very much and moving on the next one, which is the Leeds City Village Phase 1, thank you Chair, say, Leeds City Village

Kate Thompson - 0:41:20

phase 1 is located opposite Leeds cultural district in the Quarry Hill area of the city this project will deliver 591 homes over three blocks of one two three bedroom apartments and does include 102 affordable homes scheme will also deliver 8.3 Square, a thousand square feet of commercial space for office, use and community amenities including retail and leisure. The scheme also includes a micro combined heat and power plant,

the value for money assessment reflects a benefit Cost ratio of 2.1 to 1, which represents high value for money total scheme cost is 200.3 3 million approval is sought to proceed through decision Point 4 for business case work to commence on activity 5 delivery, together with a funding approval of 7.6 6 7 million from the brownfield housing fund

Cllr Scott Patient Calderdale Council - 0:42:17

thank you very much, once again, any questions before we move on.

7 f) BHF Middlecross Extra Care (Leeds)

7 g) BHF Parkwood Mills (Kirklees)

no, not on this one, so just again approval of the recommendations of you unhappy, thank you moving on to middle cross extra care.

7 f) BHF Middlecross Extra Care (Leeds)

Kate Thompson - 0:42:34

so this project will develop 65 specialist, affordable rented apartments in Leeds for those aged 55 or older, or for people with an identified care need in order to provide independent living scheme, will be a blend of one and two bedroom apartments and include a range of communal facilities.

the project will be built using low carbon alternatives to provide heating and hot water and will have a high insulation standards to support the lower running costs for tenants, proposals are being explored also for a ground source heat pump loop system to be installed, value for money assessment reflects a benefit Cost ratio of 2.3 to 1 representing high value for money.

total scheme cost is 19.4 7 2 million and approval sought to proceed through decision Point due to for business justification work to commence on delivery, together with a funding approval of 1.3 million pounds from the brownfield housing fund

Cllr Scott Patient Calderdale Council - 0:43:36

fantastic, I am always good to see extra care in the are now pleasing to see some good busy all across the pitch as well anyone wants to speak on this one cascade.

Cllr Helen Hayden (Leeds City Council) - 0:43:51

yeah just really pelted this them schemes coming forward, I don't know if anybody the newly opened extra care and general purpose housing in Middleton, is absolutely superb and go back to your point about dementia when when you go in there and there's a lovely bistro and things like that but when residents are walking round,

if they get lost, they will always come round that the corridors are circular that will always end up back at the same place so that they started so they will never get lost on there's no dead ends anywhere, and I'm an amazing or injury and it's just I'll put my name down if I didn't live in East Leeds and Levine says and put my name down for them.

this it again will be of that standard at every single detail is.

is looked at in the team are incredible, so I really welcome this, apart from the brownfield funding Celta, and particularly for working age, people living with a protected characteristic then and ngn identify care, need for them to have this high quality housing and have their independence and be able to work and things like that I think is,

is really welcome, thank you, that's really good to hear and I you

Cllr Scott Patient Calderdale Council - 0:45:04

know, isn't it great that we're using design principles and help people live, live, lives with dignity, and you know and kindness, really good scheme, can I'm I'm guessing, no one's going to have any objections towards endorsing that scheme say nods and sort of general hand-waving that'll do for me.

7 g) BHF Parkwood Mills (Kirklees)

moving onto Parkwood Mills.

thank you Chair.

say this scheme is in the Long Road area of the Kirkley district, the

Kate Thompson - 0:45:32

project will develop 39 new homes and regenerate just under a hectare of brownfield land site consists of two derelict mills, one of which will be retained as part of the as part of this scheme, the project comprises of a range of 1 and 2 bedroom apartments in the mill and two, three and four bedroom houses across the wider site. The scheme will use recycled materials and meet low-energy building standards.

the value for money assessment reflects the benefit Cost ratio of 1.4 to 1, which represents acceptable value for money the total scheme cost is 8.0 4 2 million, and approval is sought to proceed through decision Point 2 to for business justification work to commence on delivery together with a funding approval of 600,000 pounds from the brownfield housing fund.

Cllr Scott Patient Calderdale Council - 0:46:29

great stuff anyone wants to become a cook, police colleagues know.

but.

7 h) BHF Plane Street (Kirklees)

ba dot com. There, I think, is you know, obviously I presume if we had some social rented or affordable, rented or affordable to buy housing in there, but I think the viability review has shown that in this case

Cllr Moses Crook Kirklees Council - 0:46:46

it's OK it. You know there needs to be some support for the commercial centre to redevelop the site at all and it supports our wider regeneration programme. So yeah, I support it. Officers have helped

Cllr Scott Patient Calderdale Council - 0:46:57

support the bid and hopefully we can support to collect them. Thank you, Councillor Courtyard, good to see the brownfield housing from being used to own good use or are I again once again everyone happy with the recommended approvals on the nods? Yes, thank you very much.

Kate Thompson - 0:47:16

Moving onto plain street, thank you Chair. So another scheme and Kirk, please. At this scheme will develop 30 homes for affordable rent, including two and three-bedroom homes, and regenerate 1.8 6 acres of brownfield land scheme will adopt the principles of the code for sustainable homes level 3 which will allow the properties to achieve a 25% reduction in carbon emissions when compared to a similar home, built to meet regulations, value for money assessment reflects benefit Cost ratio of 1.1 to 1, which represents acceptable value for money. Total scheme cost is 8.9 1 7 million, and approval was sought to proceed through decision points 2 to 4 business justification work to commence on activity 5, together with a funding approval of 450,000 pounds from the brownfield housing fund

Cllr Scott Patient Calderdale Council - 0:48:07

perfect, thank you very much, Councillor Cook, a much more enthusiastic support from me for this help with affordable housing and higher environmental standards, I think this is a really good scheme

Cllr Moses Crook Kirklees Council - 0:48:16

and I will support this one thanks.

7 i) BHF St Cecilia Street (Leeds)

Cllr Scott Patient Calderdale Council - 0:48:20

suburbia sounds fantastic, okay, once again, tacit approval, yet nods, thank you very much, and the last one, which is St Cecilia Street.

Kate Thompson - 0:48:31

thank you Chair so St Cecilia Street in Leeds, just east of the Leeds Playhouse, this scheme will develop 78 1 2 and 3 bedroom apartments for social rent, all 78 apartments will be delivered to a standard exceeding Building Regulations by using low carbon hot water systems, low water usage products and high levels of insulation throughout the buildings the scheme will also connect to the Leeds pipes heat network 30% of the homes will be developed to standards for accessible and adaptable dwellings,

and 2% of the homes that will be developed to wheelchair adaptable standards, value for money assessment reflects a benefit Cost ratio of one to one which represents acceptable value for money the total scheme cost is 17.8 8 9 million, and approval is sought to proceed through decision point for full business case and work commenced on delivery together with a funding approval of 1.2 5 million from the brownfield housing fund.

Cllr Scott Patient Calderdale Council - 0:49:39

OK, thank you so much Coke for that. That's a lesson in a Newcastle

Cllr Helen Hayden (Leeds City Council) - 0:49:47

head-on will want to talk about Sarah, but I am so pleased this is coming through because there's very, very expensive apartments in this in this area that they like to cold Soho, I will never ever it will always be Quarry Hill, I am not adopting that name but a hit, so it's south of York Road, but I'm really pleased I'm delighted because this will look like it will to anybody else walking around, it will be the same, it won't have a cinema like the bill to rent won't have gyms and that's all they, but it will be to the same standards built to the same standards but social rent meaning that we will have that truly Sosa associate our economic diversity as well as accessibility and Old those characteristics are you know, homes available to people right in the heart of the city centre right in the heart of the cultural quarter as well so,

this is using commuted sums which you mentioned earlier, so instead of having piecemeal apartments in the in the development itself, there are there altogether and being able to be built to a certain specifications that we would want so yeah, I'm really delighted and really hope that to have the support of the Committee.

Cllr Scott Patient Calderdale Council - 0:51:06

thank you and I'm sure it will do is it is or isn't it great, though, like to just see the sheer amount of?

properties and homes for people being developed across West Yorkshire as part of a patchwork of schemes that are happening anyway. Whether that's through councils or private are a mix of both. I don't know about other people in the room, but the sheer amount of casework I get from people really really struggling, especially with the social rented sector and private rent it is is, is it, you know, terminal terminal place at the moment, so really good to see this especially thinking about all the environmental age friendly, adapts, adaptability and social sort of rented things that we've talked about today, so thank you OK, I guess that's the final projects approval. We need soldiers looking around the room for nods and smiley faces, which I'm getting back

thank you so much K much appreciated.

8 West Yorkshire Housing Strategy 2040

Cllr Scott Patient Calderdale Council - 0:52:00

OK, another fairly substantive item, which is the West Yorkshire Housing Strategy 2020 2040 and our councillors have been involved in the development and support of this, and I know Rebecca's going to speak on this in a minute, so that's just this paper provided a bit of a committee with an off day on the on the work on this since it last came to the Committee.

I hear we received over 1,000 impressions and 100 complete responses to consultations on that and we've got details of the responses and changes I guess what we're looking for here because it is far progressed, isn't it will keep for some very, very final minor tweaks and amends as opposed to massive railroads because we don't want to do that here all day, Rebecca you know we were at the final for long on me so I will pass to you to present the papers that's OK.

thank you Chair, and thank you for that summary and start

Ms. Rebecca Greenwood, Officer (West Yorkshire Combined Authority) - 0:52:55

recommendation to the committee there and not to give me tills in terms of work 0 over the next two days, yeah, just for those new Members, just to give a little bit of a of an overview as to where we are with our West Yorkshire Housing Strategy so committee members opinion for some time will know we've been sort of working with you and with your teams on this for the last year officer and have been developing a are quite peers absolutely or for the first time will have a West Yorkshire Housing Strategy adopted by the Combined Authority.

so the report today is present in what will hopefully be the near final version of our housing strategy.

at the last meeting, members agreed for us to take the draft report to public consultation which asked them Councillor patient, as outlined, received over a thousand impressions and 113 full complete responses, and since then myself and Cowell has sat of the has done them, a lot of work to get this into a final draft farm, which is what you see today, so we've reviewed all that feedback, and just officers Romo has had extensive engagement them across directorates internally but with local authority teams with the West Yorkshire Housing Partnership homes, England, historic England and the ICB and other partners that are in the room as well. On this, on the draft strategy that you see today, so we feel that we've had a really strong level of violent engagement from from colleagues and partners in the development of what you've got in the appendix

I'm not gonna go through in detail the consultation responses because we'd given you quite a detailed section in the report, so I'm gonna take that as read what I did think it might just be helpful to address for some of the comments that Members made at last meeting and where we've made changes so one of the things that was said at last meeting was around strengthening the combined authorities role in the document which we tried to do in the section on on the role of the Combined Authority demonstrating our track record on an

delivery of housing on a retrofit and various other agendas. We talk about in the strategy, so things like, but there are pockets just talked through affordable housing, brownfield delivery sustainability, the things that we have delivered and are part of that is round the audience for this document being being into central government. So our kids talk today about some of the constraints of programmes. This is making our pitch for that flexible funding and devolution that we need in West Yorkshire to be able to deliver the suite of things. That committee has rightly questions there and affordable housing, sustainable housing across our programmes, so one of the core purposes of this document is that sets our sets, our aims directly into government, of what we want to see in West Yorkshire, and so we strengthen DAO kind of role in setting strategic direction and convening partners around those objectives.

and using our our tools, powers and flexibilities to support our local authorities and private sector partners to deliver. He also see, as a new section in their around joining up our special ambitions. We felt it really important to make sure that we're really strongly aligned with our strategic place. Partnership which Thompson hopefully, will advocate for that as well in West Yorkshire to ensure that we are consistently putting back that clear message that, as a collective in West Yorkshire, we know where our strategic priorities and housing-led growth and regeneration opportunities are, so there's a section and what that looks like in West Yorkshire, but then drawing out at district level what those key opportunities are again or distress, to committee that all those areas have been agreed with local authorities. It's not something that we have produced independently as Combined Authority, we've worked extensively with officers and members to to agree those, as our strategic police priority, focus areas

the comment that was made at OSC Committee was around strengthening connections to our wider strategy sphere at the Combined Authority, so we've increased, for example, our reference to create and well connected places whilst at this moment in time we can't say exactly where warehousing development will align to things like mass transit because of where we are on that on that journey, what we have done is put the right hooks in there to say that these growth opportunities and regeneration opportunities that come from us improving and creating a better connected transport network will align to our housing and regeneration growth opportunities, so we've tried to strengthen that through objective 1 of the document

similarly, there were comments, I think, actually from from Helen and Debbie 5 at last Committee around skills and supply chain, so if strengthen some links around HR in that.

West support in the wider supply chain around this as well, so if we're gonna, develop develop more homes, that we want to see that want to do more on retrofit boost the supply chain and skills best that we need to do that, so I hope they've got some approved hubs in there for that.

one comment was made around the existing buildings and brownfield land at last Committee, in particular, around making Charlotte where we're using as far as possible, hopefully Members see that through that brownfield housing fund investment, but again we recognise and thanks to historic England for their consultation response which was really helpful in that the en suite of underused heritage buildings that we have in our region and the moment we can we can do working together on schemes like Helen Town Hall and Parkwood Mills for example where we use an existing buildings as much as as much as we can throughout the funds and powers that we've got.

everything is worth pointing out, the strategy is to 20 Fatah, which is which is ambitious, the reason it's ambitious is because those outcomes that we've set are things that don't change change overnight and we want it to be ambitious in saying things like we're gonna work with partners to,

to eliminate things like fuel poverty. Et cetera, we need time to do that. A delivery plan gives a year one to three things that we're gonna do and a section in there that says, making the case to government of the further flexibilities that we will need in order to get to to get to our 2040 ambitions them. And finally, we've done quite a lot of work with our research and intelligence team on developing an initial set of measuring indicators so that what we hope to be able to bring to this committee so that the Committee feel that they can see what impacts this is having. It is a future report on a regular basis that then shows you how, where performance hop like a weather, chart type of thing against each of those indicators, and that committee can then help us and give us a steer as to whether the Combined Authority can support or do more do more to deliver, so moving forward, that will really help us working with you as a committee to see what impact we're having through our housing strategy

and so, as I say, the purpose of today's report is to seek any final comments from Committee on the strategy document and then ultimately to seek your endorsement, subject to any of those final amendments, to take the strategy to approval at full Combined Authority on the 14th of March following that we'll we're gonna have a more designed version and plan to have a more formal launch after the pre-election period, so I'll have to take any questions or comments thank you.

Cllr Scott Patient Calderdale Council - 0:59:19

thank you for that, Rebecca and I know back at the rump shop our housing officers are always really really enthusiastic about working with the housing team Harrow who have had the Combined Authority, and they said they were content with it, which I think is local government speak for really loved it so that I take that as an endorsement from Fermanagh police.

looking around the room, anyone want to add to anything is that you Andy.

Andy Wallhead, Advisory Representative (WY Housing Partnership) - 0:59:46

this author thanks Rebecca and thanks for Kenneth, reflecting some of the comments from members of the West Yorkshire Housing Partnership, because I think you have and think that by saying there were more than content, sorry, no, I do not know is competitive, but that they were really supportive actually, and I think you know a lot of the work that the members of the Partnership do. A reflect across all four objectives have been obviously specifically objective 2, which is a roundabout affordable housing. He knows very specific for us, but we are boosting supply generally is a good thing and we know there is demand for housing of all tenure, types and different types of property and accommodation as well, so that's to be welcomed. I think it's really positive that we've got something in our existing homes because the majority of our tenants for the foreseeable future are gonna be in the homes, we've already gotten. A lot of those were built up nearly 100 years ago now and there's been very little funding and support

for investment into existing homes, members from local authorities and housing associations will know, and I think to have some could in there be very positive and it again I think that you mentioned the links to transport which would like to see. I think, finally the final word from me as I think this is a really good document as a starting point to lobby any new government, and you know they really need to kind of put their money where their mouth is and if the really you know if they if they're really real, about devolution, then hopefully we'll see other funding streams or flexibility with existing funding streams so that we can deliver against all these priorities, not just one or two

Cllr Scott Patient Calderdale Council - 1:01:10

that's great. Thank you so much. I think it's really important we fill those policy spaces with our own, really really good, strong work, so there's stuff there on the shelf, ready for any changes tamsin so few

Mr Tamsin Hart Jones (Private Sector Representative) - 1:01:22

as well. Thank you very much, yeah. I can then certainly confirm that collaborative working in the way that we develop this or the way that the combined authority have developed the housing strategy with everybody around the table and and beyond, I think it is really positive. We've got the strategic placed partnership. It's really reflected in this document and I think it helps us to even strengthen that. We've got each of the districts with their housing strategies, but this, I think, really responds to a challenge we gave quite early on in terms of what's the value added at West Yorkshire level, so I'm really pleased that that's been set out and I think it certainly helps from a homes. England perspective us to make that strategic. I can give the strategic rationale for our decision making as well, so yeah, from support from me,

Cllr Scott Patient Calderdale Council - 1:02:06

that's great. Thank you so much, I guess it'd be remiss of me not to pick out the safety of walking and cycling stuff, it's the shame we've got such a woeful number, but people will say it's because of the hills and up by that, but really really good to see that picked out, and I think in the previous item was thinking about creating spaces and places that have those connections and give the opportunity for us to move around different is really good anyone else, Stephen, I'm

Stephen Moore - 1:02:36

gonna, get see first hi yeah, it's 8. I think it's great as well to see the

the supply chain point noted again because I know we talked about that in length last time and I just wanted to bang the drum again, but you know construction as a sector is really challenging.

so any anything that can be done across the that the whole of West Yorkshire and by the local authorities and combined authorities is complete key to the success of this, and I was just looking flicking through because I ready earlier, but the point about planning as well as a critical point you know.

having not having the planning resource needed within those local authorities and a downturn broadly this there's a piece of work to be done across all levels, but it's reasonable to see that brought more in here, thank you.

Cllr Scott Patient Calderdale Council - 1:03:24

thank you, Stephen Councillor Hayden yeah, I think it's an incredibly

Cllr Helen Hayden (Leeds City Council) - 1:03:29

interesting and strategy and am very very welcome them, what's really them?

exercising me is looking at, it is actually.

the smaller towns that have the people have, the less easy access to green space, so 15% in Kirkley and Calderdale, which I would I would automatically assume it would be the opposite way round the Bradford and Leeds people would have less easy access to, so I'm I've just want that to be held in mind about how we can increase.

you know that that can visa access, especially as particularly in Leeds, but it will be across the board that we increase identification of a housing building developments, especially around the city centre RIM, which is the the May gonna be the major development in in in Leeds out in East Leeds extension, with circa 4,000 homes. They will have much easier access to green space, but that'd be less so it's a challenge, but it's something I think with this committee should think about in terms of what you are saying about place-making and and keeping those figures in mind.

Cllr Scott Patient Calderdale Council - 1:04:47

no, I'd really agree with that and it, and it is obvious, and it's that sort of topsy-turvy, but I, I live in the upper valley in Calderdale and of Worcester per annum, the hills and there, but that is not the same story for everyone in some central and northern parts

Cllr Helen Hayden (Leeds City Council) - 1:05:02

of the borough and I'm sure it tracks elsewhere Richard yeah, just

Richard Butterfield, Advisory Representative (Historic England) - 1:05:07

congratulations to the team, I think the the the strategy in the reports to this really advanced stage now, so congratulations on that. I think in this area we do have this mixed picture, don't we have a tremendous character to the local area and the local buildings and housing stock until this also own is challenging and the geography is challenging in places as well, and I think just how we kind of work together on that too, I suppose to build the liveability and the character of the special places that we live in is really key to when it's nice to see that come through with report is much more than simply

getting more and better houses is about creating places that look very Liverpool, I think the better homes hub and that kind of work is really key to this as well, it's just making people's lives better through that and that that broader role in terms of the industrial heritage and so on is really great to see that can be through, so thanks for that and will obviously we partners with you yourselves on this one and taking it forward and have reached the on or D risks some of these historic and challenging sites as well. So yeah well done

Cllr Scott Patient Calderdale Council - 1:06:18

good stuff. Thank you, Richard Cathy

Cllr Helen Hayden (Leeds City Council) - 1:06:22

what I wanted to offer is once this has been signed off, which I understand happens on the 14th of March, I think it is something we

Jennifer Connolly, Officer (West Yorkshire Combined Authority) - 1:06:31

can take through to our place Committees across NHS West Yorkshire.

where they are already working with housing in some way and in fact Wakefield is probably one of our best examples of how health and

Cathy Elliot, Advisory Representative (NHS West Yorkhire Integrated Care Board) - 1:06:40

housing are working together, but I am particularly interested in objective for around creating resilient places, I think this is something where our place committee is looking at NHS and broader health and care can take that on board as well, so we'll take that one away to talk to our Partnership Board in place commitments as well.

Cllr Scott Patient Calderdale Council - 1:06:56

Thank you, thank you so much for that.

among the hearing, nice positive comments so far, maybe Alex is gonna

Cllr Helen Hayden (Leeds City Council) - 1:07:05

change that well, let's say first of all I suppose I am really welcomed the confidence and the positive tone of of this document and

Lisa Littlefair (Private Sector Representative) - 1:07:13

that it does not, you can say where the responses in the consultation have really been taken on board and work, whether you can say the collaboration upon it but that's really really clear and I I think one of the points I am gonna say something.

I haven't got a point, I think one of the things that we talked about previously was that that has in the right place in a make sure of that connectivity pace and you've absolutely you've mentioned it and it's in the document the one thing I just was wondering is that there is not a measure around it does not occur and I know that's hard when we're in at such a flux situation with the transport network.

is that a plan?

Cllr Scott Patient Calderdale Council - 1:07:49

for their child, and I I think I'm not know in any more comments, so if you want to.

responsive leases and then sort of sum up in the end, and then we'll take a recommendation if that's OK.

Lisa Littlefair (Private Sector Representative) - 1:07:59

not washing green. Now I don't quite know what that meant, but yeah,

Ms. Rebecca Greenwood, Officer (West Yorkshire Combined Authority) - 1:08:05

thank you, Chair yeah. I think that the with that lies that absolutely is some of. This is around the time in the various strategies being developed and and top plans for this this year in coming years, around mass transit, around connectivity, infrastructure, plan around our Local Transport Plan and other things, so alignment of those things. What we've tried to do as best we can is put the hooks in there, so that, as these kind of various strategies, which one challenge for us more widely as policy strategy teams, is where we've got one thing happening in 2024 hour, one coming in 2025 1 in it is aligning a lot of that, so I absolutely. That is absolutely our intention to keep going with the alignment and this being kind of one thing. In a suite of wider set of infrastructure infrastructure related documents, that Lincoln connect together, and so the fact that we work closely across directorates, hopefully, kind of helps give some comfort that that is Paris to come, and partly why we we didn't want to set out what we will do longer than one to three years, because what what I'd like to do is we're not gonna. Bring this back to committee next in 2040 is that we keep bringing iterative version, particularly of that deliberate plan, so that he can come back and sort of obviously give us that steering direction. His officers to say OK, what we said. We'd do this, that this was first steps', that that now has in place how we're making those links stronger, so

whilst I think where we say as much as we can at the moment, I think that where we look to go is to is to keep bringing that back and keep giving sort of updates on that delivery, and that alignment between things for that helps.

yeah, just thank you, everyone's comments and input, as well as it's been kind of real effort and among among particular local authority, seems as well just to say they've had a lot of input and support for our team in developing this. Thank you and thank and thank you to you

Cllr Scott Patient Calderdale Council - 1:09:49

and your team and, as you said, everyone, that's employed, it's been very much a collaborative piece of work and really good to say at this point and and hopefully endorsed him in a week or so, but I'm looking round the room for tacit approval of that and I'm getting it back, so thank you so much. Rebecca

9 Introduction to West Yorkshire Integrated Care Board and links to health

Cllr Scott Patient Calderdale Council - 1:10:11

moving on, we have a presentation for about the ECB and health outcomes by some of our new.

we need new people in the room, which is about setting out the relationship between place regeneration and housing with health, so I'm gonna hand over to 0 genuine Catholic to run this one if that's OK.

Jennifer Connolly, Officer (West Yorkshire Combined Authority) - 1:10:32

thanks very much indeed and really really pleased to be here, I think it builds on the recognition that the CIA's in adopting of those really important links between everything that the CIA does and its impact on people's health, so we really understand the role of whether it been a kind of economy, our jobs works, work and skills transport and also place regeneration and housing on people's health and wellbeing.

and what's great is this chance to really look at how we build those links, how we understand that evidence and how we increasingly become explicit in our in our policies and strategies around those links and the outcomes that we want to see, so just building on the previous item how brilliant to see that COREP throughout and everything that that that strategy is trying to achieve will have that impact that we want to see so real exemplar there.

we've got this partnership agreement in place between the ICB and the see a that really sets out the yeah that was signed back in September and that sets out the kind of key areas that we want to work on together in those shared priorities we've got some small amounts of shared resources,

one of those being human resources myself, I am bringing those things together and we've got the reciprocal governance arrangements in place now with the Mayor and with the Chief Exec on the integrated care partnership board, and now Cafe on this committee and Ian Holmes director of strategy also on the climate and environment committee as well, so just wants to give back context but belly over to Catholic thank you.

Cathy Elliot, Advisory Representative (NHS West Yorkhire Integrated Care Board) - 1:12:14

thank you, you've got a comprehensive document, though, and very typically in public sector, particularly NHS, there's loads of event information available online.

I suppose what I wanted to share here is the health and carer for which came in in July 2022 gave NHS both the encouragement, if not the permission, to start working on broader social and economic development and make that broader contribution in West Yorkshire we have a very well established health and care partnership. We're award-winning we've been around for six seven years, we have brought local authorities together, particularly health and wellbeing boards together with local healthcare systems in NHS and the voluntary community and social enterprise sector, but health and carer was the point where we kept the permission ready to do it.

and there are four purposes to an integrated healthcare system. There are 42 of us in the country and with a one for West Yorkshire, A and the fourth purposes around the NHS, making broader contribution to social and economic development. We also have to use our resources wisely, as you do at within local authorities. We also have a brief on tackling inequalities, and we also need to ensure that we have open, seamless access and there is no variation in access. And for those of you who are elected officials, I'm sure you hear regularly from your constituents around I probably more likely around issues around access to the NHS rather than the that may be more positive experiences. So Jones' role is particularly about making sure that we've got health in every policy me being here today. I hope we can already see the some examples of how, hopefully we can contribute to your work as well as you come in to be more involved with us. The NHS is simple, yet complex and we've tried to just summarise on one map and in one of the pages there we are six acute providers, so that's A and E maternity services, where you go and have a hip operation, we've got full mental health providers

we have community provision, we have over 300 GP service or GP services across West Yorkshire,

as of April last year, we also took on dental provision and commissioning, which is also what the Health and Care Act is enabling us to do from next year, will take on immunisations and vaccinations, for example, and I don't want to get into the complexity of it but a lot of this has been held nationally and what's great PR a point earlier on divulging downpours is now we have got.

more power in decision-making on certain services and take the dental healthcare or contract for commissioning that came through in April last year there was an underspend of of m rounds 5 6 million pounds that we then in taking on the contract in April having our first board meeting in public in May after taking on that contract made the decision to spend the underspend to increase the capacity of the so and you as elected officials may be hearing a lot about certain issues with dental services.

so there are a lot of activity going on. We meet as NHS West Yorkshire, distinctly across five paces which map across our local authorities as we meet across different service provision, not only acute services but mental health and community, and that then links into the ICPD integrated care partnership at which is the West Yorkshire Health and Care Partnership, which is where some of you, as elected officials, your colleagues who are chairs of health and wellbeing boards, will be coming together. Our strategy, as a health and care partnership, is initially based on health and wellbeing board plans then into a broader health system at place level. Whether it's Wakefield or its Bradford district and Craven, and then that comes up to create an overall strategy. So we've been embedded and connected together for some years now, but we're trying to be more deliberate in that in working together, and I think there's lots of different opportunities, particularly on working on fuel poverty and in working dementia, ready housing, for example, and creating resilient community, so

there are a number of opportunities to get to know us a bit better. We have our next Partnership Board in Leeds next Tuesday at the Town Hall. We also will meet, virtually which might mean more accept or be more accessible to you, and we also like this meeting re livestream the meetings, as well as putting them on record and all our documentation is available. Online lack is for this meeting as well, so I am happy to take any questions now, but I am happy to take questions afterwards as well this one Scott if people want to find things out for curry clarification or any further queries. But yes, I'm really really pleased to join you today in strengthen the partnership. Thank you

Cllr Scott Patient Calderdale Council - 1:16:49

thanks both and I guess it's a really good opportunity for us for this, for this group. One wicket to sort of engage with public health than are on a more unabashed platform and Les, and likewise sort of from your from your sites to help involving it. You know influence the work that we're doing through regeneration and economic development and stuff really good to see that Debs was telling me that those connections are already been made and you've got regular sort of sort of monthly check. Check-ins deputies are director of public health, so it is good to see those connections are already been forged. Anyone want to pick out any of that again, no need if it's fine for the moment. It feels like an ongoing dialogue that can be picked up and a really good to welcome you here and and see how things can progress

thank you so much OK, thank you, thank you everyone I am moving on to.

10 Dementia-ready Housing Taskforce Update

agenda item 10, which is about the dementia ready housing task force, which, bit of an update to the Committee on on on this work, so about the recruitment of a new chair, she's Helen Lunnon.

just over there, and I'll let you speak on it rather than rather than me if that's OK.

Helen Foreman - 1:18:07

it's confusing because there are two Helen, so I'm Helen Foreman from the Combined Authority, Helen London, isn't here, but she is our new church, he's the chief executive of connect Housing, and we're really pleased to have her.

just because it's been a year since we updated this committee and we've got several new members just to, I guess, remind you of the Mayor's pledge to establish the Housing Task Force to to make people's lives better through housing with dementia and to remind you of the statistics on dementia which are really quite staggering, the number of people with dementia is going to double in the UK in the next 25 years and there there are very few older people living in supported accommodation so,

it just stands to reason that we need to make our existing homes and are all new general needs homes ready for that that that number of people with dementia is also the caliph focus of the older people's housing task force, which the government set up in March last year which is ready to make its recommendations now and the chief medical officers annual report on health in an ageing society which talks about a lot about focusing on the quality rather than the quantity of life for older people.

so the main point in the report is on the dementia ready housing criteria, which is a set of criteria which we've developed through talking to West Yorkshire Housing Partnership and through going through the and considerable amounts of literature on dementia ready design, it's it's a different to other dementia ready dementia friendly design in that it's it applies to general needs housing so the West Yorkshire Housing Partnership have committed to apply these criteria to all the new-build homes coming through the pipeline.

and that's different, because it it's meaning that these homes will be not necessarily people with dementia that live there, but if those people do develop dementia, those homes will be able to accommodate them for longer and they can hopefully stay in their home for as long as they wish to do so, giving it a more healthy and happy life in their own community. So we're really delighted that the Housing Partnership approved those criteria in inner new-build property. So they'll be applying those to new build, but also they're going to look at the existing stock and what can be done to develop and assess those those properties. So we're working on that too, or other things in the report are

kind of the rest of the things we've been doing with the with the task force and other things we're doing on dementia within the Combined Authority, which which I won't take you through, but but just a kind of.

conclude there really to ask you to note the work of the task force today and to endorse those criteria and ask questions.

Cllr Scott Patient Calderdale Council - 1:21:18

thank you so much, Helen Andy, I'm wondering if you wanted to speak as

Andy Wallhead, Advisory Representative (WY Housing Partnership) - 1:21:24

well on this item yet sure absolutely well members, I think if the partnership were really pleased to be able to kind of support this work and, as it has been stated partners have agreed to try and incorporate this new specification into all new-build projects.

F plus with a plea for local authorities. So if you could also build it into your planning specification, pressures as well, that would really help, because a lot of our supply comes through 1 0 6 agreement. So without that kind of where we are control of that element, but certainly in terms of the stuff that we're gonna, commission ourselves, we'll be looking to include include this and we think actually just looking we've looked to our own pipeline over the next two years and we think that about 89% of the what's coming forward that actually we can make you meet this criteria and actually with not much not with very little change. We think Councillor obtained decision of W D H that we're gonna try and provide all the step-free access, even where it wasn't part of the original specification. We're gonna try and do that because that's the biggest barrier, I think in some of these criteria, so where we're gonna try and do that and then the other element is mapping our existing stock. So we're gonna do some work, I think, looking at our existing stock and see how much of that actually makes his criteria already and again, what would it take to perhaps potentially adapt it so that he does if it doesn't, and that'll give us a good picture of of where we've got dementia friendly stock already maybe we haven't got gaps, etc so that might inform some future investment decisions. I'm going forward

Cllr Scott Patient Calderdale Council - 1:22:52

that's brilliant, thank you.

Cllr Ben Burton (York Council) - 1:22:58

Councillor Burton yeah, thank you, yeah looks at it suits great mothers' kind of jobs in development was working on dementia-friendly housing, so it's really good to see a lot of these Britain are the only one that.

there is quite a big ask, so I can see what's going there, but obviously it's a lot about level access, but I wondered if there was a thing for having level access showers as the primary source of cleaning essentially within the house, and that also things around kind of it's quite minor detail but light fittings at the correct high plug fit into higher height as well for accessibility with anything so far.

might also be included, otherwise I think it's really good,

Cllr Scott Patient Calderdale Council - 1:23:35

feel free to come back here. Yeah so yeah, thank you for your support

Helen Foreman - 1:23:39

and on, firstly on a plug sockets. I believe that the new Bill they are already at at waist height so and existing housing obviously that's more difficult, but I think that's the case in terms of level access showers. That is something that we did look at, but something that in our attempts to tick, to work, to to play the balance between what was very expensive to achieve and and really made a big difference to people with dementia. That kind of just fell on on the the wrong side of that of that line that we chose to draw

I guess in the document we are going to have a few extra extra recommendations at the end, things that people have mentioned, that we that we didn't feel quite fitted into that you know to that balance, for instance, glass-fronted cabinets is one of those things that

I seem to be really useful for people with dementia because they can see what's in the cupboard without within a year and they don't tend to forget and and contrasting toilet seats. These are things that couldn't be quite agreed on between all the people that we consulted but we're going to list those at the end so I wonder if that the level access shower might also be one of the things that we say is a kind of and a nice to have it if it can be achieved.

Cllr Scott Patient Calderdale Council - 1:25:03

thank you, Rebecca a deposit, if it worth adding on that helmet, the criteria for general needs housing, so it's to be applied to all

Ms. Rebecca Greenwood, Officer (West Yorkshire Combined Authority) - 1:25:11

housing all housing stock, which I think is one of the reasons why it's obviously, if we roll this out to everything that West Yorkshire Housing Partnership deliver is about being dementia ready, but for some housing for some some, some people obviously are having a bath. This is something that they need if they've got young children, etc so I think that, as well as one of the reasons so kind of and or an addendum to, that might be around weight where it's a home, that's built, specifically Barça parted, our specialists live in. That makes something easier, but I just thought it was worth with. I cannot really clear that this is a criteria that can be adopted to to any

Cllr Scott Patient Calderdale Council - 1:25:46

OK, thank you so much, Thompson yeah, I was just interested in the the

Mr Tamsin Hart Jones (Private Sector Representative) - 1:25:50

third recommendation, which is around them, spreading it out to the private secretary as well, and I just thought there's a real opportunity and then we have the West Yorkshire developer for him in January and I just wonder if we've got another one coming up in summer and whether that could be a real opportunity to start to talk about why this is important and what that could mean for those private sector partners to start to use it as a bit of an opportunity to talk to people about it.

Cllr Scott Patient Calderdale Council - 1:26:18

brilliant thanks, so much did you, I come back on that hook, yeah just

Helen Foreman - 1:26:24

to confirm we have started conversations with the private sector when in fact we did talk to somebody at the last developer forum and we were looking as is mentioned in the paper at what we can do with our or other schemes that we fund to see how we can roll that out we also to have any conversations with architects but it's it's.

its early early stages for that at the moment, but we we, we also took it to the government's older People's Housing Task Force, and they're aware of the criteria and we're quite interested in them, so we're hoping that that we can spread the influence further but for starting with the homes that we have most influence over.

Cllr Scott Patient Calderdale Council - 1:27:03

very good so much, and it would be good to hear from you Andy about the opportunities for retrofit and making changes in, and how, and now that's perhaps a little bit easier than maybe we thought it was.

but also thinking about how we embed this into some of our sort of modern thinking, and I know we've got an extra care scheme in Brickhouse railway bridge view that Scott saw 10 specifically dementia friendly apartments, and I know I know they've been proved really successful. It's a really great scheme and good to hear about ones being delivered today as well, so I'm assuming everyone around the room is happy with endorsing and recommending this paper move to move forward to the Combined Authority. I'm saying not on that one, so thank you very much, Helen and Andy on that one

moving forward,

11 High Street Heritage Action Zone Programme

to the High Street heritage action zone.

programme, a bit bit of an update on that and that is coming from yourself, isn't it, Richard?

Richard Butterfield, Advisory Representative (Historic England) - 1:31:00

Cllr Scott Patient Calderdale Council - 1:38:13

thank you, Richard, and we've not got loads and loads of time on that we've maybe got around five minutes, but I thought it was really important to let you have the opportunity to present those slides anything I think you brought them to life there and have really shown the investment and the changes that have may have made a difference to our places, but I'll stop talking I will open this up to the group for anyone who might want to pick out any of those questions there or it's possible you've stunned everyone into silence with your amazing crew owner we've got with Carfagna or Belfast and then Howard

Ben Aspinall (Private Sector Representative) - 1:38:47

yeah, thanks for the HSE presentation and I think.

as per my observation, to come in so that there is a role for these area.

Place scheme. So I am thinking about I've worked on Townscape Heritage Initiative and passed in a nice sort of ha ha heritage action zone. I was wondering, is gonna be further programme of area-based activity beyond? Is this this based programme and then turned to that specific question know about looming ambitions. I think

if there can be programmes and or it could be, it could be masked made a bit clearer to to private sector that funding might be available for for residential.

developments within easy heritage buildings, I'm thinking more from my experience actually with.

Heritage Lottery Fund rather than historic England, but

you know, certainly, with Heritage Lottery Fund after the credit crunch.

there is a lot of focus on the hash enterprise scheme and being a historic buildings back into commercial uses in the sort of residential element that fell away and we had various work around that Heritage Lottery had, but it was never really entirely satisfactory that there was funding was available for for residential and, as we've seen some of these heritage buildings that are coming forward, obviously they are very expensive.

and the funding that's available says the above hasn't done, always allow them to deliver affordable housing as well, which would within those some of our schemes, and so you know just just above a plea think to to have sought to address specific and,

Cllr Scott Patient Calderdale Council - 1:40:50

guidance, I suppose I'm gonna let Helen come in at first of all Councillor and capture them both.

Cllr Helen Hayden (Leeds City Council) - 1:40:58

yeah, it's just what else it can pull in, and that first question about them, because my experience with Neuberger is that's what we call it, isn't it to me, it's Upper Briggate, but?

kebab row, when when I was clubbing, and that's why you weren't vehicle alpha and therefore go in and get in a taxi all so.

it's yeah, it's it was odd, but.

when I was in briefings with and having a highways briefings, there was a gonna take down these signs and we're gonna put you in y and get rid of the street cut because we were redeveloping the road as well, but the it focused kind of like highways, engineers, them are the planning colleagues and all different people as well as the heritage around St John's Church.

and our green spaces and play spaces. It really focused our attention and that this investment was gonna go in. We want this to enhance the development and and therefore it kind of was a catalyst to other departments. Is what I was saying, and I think that's really valuable in terms of the value it's added to the overall project that we could bring and that businesses could bring in the Grand Theatre Bar and an it kind of all mushrooms from there, and I think that's what we're seeing in Wakefield as well at fabulous that then people build on n and parliaments can build on it. So I won't say a huge. Thank you

and it now opens it up into the bone tusk pottery and going down into to Margate, and all that are now spatial thinking there and the design thing in the and that real industrial heritage that we want to enhance rather than and celebrate rather than just signal, so thank you is Toronto.

Cllr Michael Graham (Wakefield Council) - 1:42:48

Councillor Gruen here just to really quickly sort of associate myself with the comments from Alan I think in Wakefield that you know him. I'm happy to be a case of the day that the amount of pride you brought back to the people of Whitfield. They absolutely looked at Strictly love the buildings, there's so much to say and just uncovering them. You know, we couldn't have done it without that funding, and I think it's for me at all of that, as well as at looking good at all of the additional activity that went around the you know, we're getting walks and talks down, there will get an ABS and Martin, everything that goes along with are just making people really happy and getting them back on the high street, not just overnight, when they are no more. Have you caught notice at the date of a day as well, it's fantastic, so as as much as I'd love to see much more of this. We've got other streets in Wakefield that I'd like to see this happen on sorry, I very much welcome it and very much welcome any support or funding from anyone else that can help to make that happen.

Cllr Scott Patient Calderdale Council - 1:43:43

thus Gray and I are going to also endorse them. I mean slightly on a smaller scale, but with fire and water, in the work you've done in Sowerby Bridge, I think what it's done more than anything not only brought those buildings and are bringing those buildings back to life, you've also re-engage some sections of the community who weren't active in local life, and I think that's probably one of the most powerful things that you know. Outcomes that has come out of it in terms of health and wellbeing and stuff. So I'm just gonna if you can sort of address them in the next couple of minutes yeah super well,

Richard Butterfield, Advisory Representative (Historic England) - 1:44:12

thank you for the the endorsements from those who have been involved in those schemes. That's really really positive just to pick up on one or two otter knows, I think local authorities, you know the highway is your domain. So highway schemes are relatively easy to deliver in the scheme of things

but tying that together as we've done in America and in the course of doing it in Sowerby Bridge and

with the improvements to buildings, helps to give that more complete package, and certainly you know getting the different part different partners on board has felt, like probably the single most important sort of legacy coming out of those schemes, I think there are challenges ahead, certainly near local authorities bringing funding to the table it's difficult in the current circumstances I mean you know 50 50 funding that we had with the high street heritage action zones.

that's gonna be really challenging for local authorities at the moment, and you know it's part and parcel of our discussions at Bradford at the moment in terms of how we we square, that and also I think how we work to, I suppose, bring benefit other with with other partners as well and bring other people on board. That's something that we really kind of interested in, but again what the kind of benefits that we can bring him me and I think one of the things that we are we see for this, as well as the health and wellbeing benefits from doing this kind of work. This again is about

helping people enjoy the place that they live, and you know support. Green spaces are a and those kinds of things. I think just come back to Ben's point about residential residential did for did feature in a small way with high street houses, but typically as demonstrator projects, because it is just so expensive to do as we've seen from the from the presentation earlier on in them in the meeting it is expensive and also it isn't necessarily quite so visible in terms of the, I suppose, the public realm and in the broadest sense of the word, with the vitality of the High Street to so we'd have loved to have seen more of that come through our programmes but broadly speaking it wasn't suitable, affordable and in terms of making the most immediate impact

facades of buildings repair work.

shopfront, public realm and so on, and then the animation activity to to bring people together have been the things that we'd really.

focused on we're very open to conversations about housing schemes in historic buildings, but probably more on a a repair grant ha ha footing.

12 Digital Blueprint Draft

Cllr Scott Patient Calderdale Council - 1:46:56

okay, that thank you very much for coming in and sharing all that needs with us, we're gonna have to press on there, I'm afraid, but much appreciated, and I think everyone got a lot out of that. Thank you last, but certainly not least in terms of inpatient, Justin over

Richard Butterfield, Advisory Representative (Historic England) - 1:47:13

to you to share with us of the digital blueprint draft. Thank you Chair, I know I won't repeat to him of detail in the report and was constantly. I would like some kind of discussion after this, as well as in terms of the the Watson today, and so it is very, very fit background

obviously this is the most obvious digital blueprint and we first introduced this to the committee last year when we outlined the proposed approach and we got some kind of feedback on that it is aware of the direction of travel which had been taken into account, indeed the reference in the pack today.

Justin Wilson, Officer (West Yorkshire Combined Authority) - 1:47:45

today, I think we just like to gauge your thoughts on the first draft and to note that it's a Prix de Design version, so it is mainly on the content at this stage it will be worked up and finalised into.

something a bit more coat glossy and presentable for publication, I think in terms of the context for developing it, I think this is the successor or replacement to the Leeds the region digital framework, which is dating back from 2019 and things have moved on a lot since then and they also built on the 2022 and digital skills plan and so does have a direct relationship there and obviously recognising since 2019 a lot happened and lots of what we can that bus into the Covid.

can I believe, me, you, and also the significant level of tunnel technological advancements that we're seeing at the moment, the pace is kind of accelerating, I think that's the kind of the view of the sector, I think in terms of the structure of the document and it's quite a broad cross cutting agenda.

which is challenging from a policymaking point in people's kind of legibility and actually dancing that up, so we've split that into three key thematic policy areas, so it's the place, the people and the conduct and the business transferred up, and although it's again cross cutting the particular focus for this group,

it's the place element and just to home in on that and a little bit more detail that refers to essentially the digital infrastructure development.

the regional connectivity, whether that's broadband, mobile connectivity or the connected places agenda which sometimes referred to as smart cities, and to recognising there, but the knowing generally, I think our coverage is quite good on a kind of regional basis, but there are significant areas that are in a different position to that and it's about how we address skills whether they be rural or cut off.

how to reach further out for further reasons whether that's kind of economic or conf to topography in terms of it says the land land structures.

I think in terms of the it says those three things.

we've got throughout the document,

Councillor M Cross cutting agendas that we've tried to highlight in terms of the main areas are, from a West Yorkshire footprint perspective that we can actually influence, so if Keogh dozy up into showcasing, so that's how we can kind of sell the digital opportunity that West Yorkshire has to offer this is a bit focusing on her day-to-day life and that's how digital technology can make.

that's easier for our residents, our communities and our businesses. Advanced tech ads are touched on earlier, just having capitalised on those emerging areas of of expertise and and development. So that's kind of artificial intelligence which we've heard about in the media, virtual reality and augmented reality, and also can quantum technology as well, which is it is kind of not not too far away. Now he's looking like, and digital inclusion and data and climate emergency again, there's quite strong links there. I think a lot of the activities that we are trying to do from the climate. Emergency and carbon reduction point of view are tech for line Suffolk was it was key that they had a section dedicated to that and then finally a collaborative working, and that's us recognising that again from a West Yorkshire point of view there opportunities to bring cross cutting multidisciplinary

groups of stakeholders and partners together to actually enhance our our our capabilities and our impact.

just in terms of kind of procedure so far EMI is cross cutting so it's been across the business economy and innovation committee so far and also the employment and skills committee and if they've often doorstep Alan the view is after the be completion today's agenda will take the comments on board from the three committees and then finalise the document could seek CA approval comment authority approval and in the summer before final publication.

Cllr Scott Patient Calderdale Council - 1:51:32

as with frequent questions, sorry, it's kind of snobbery really

Richard Butterfield, Advisory Representative (Historic England) - 1:51:36

reflecting on the strengths and challenges of the region, do you think

Justin Wilson, Officer (West Yorkshire Combined Authority) - 1:51:42

the contents right all the outcomes, ambitious enough and also

Cllr Scott Patient Calderdale Council - 1:51:46

condemning general feedback and that she should think about to check, thank you, thank you Justin and we've got and we've got around five minutes to cover this so so it's a bit tie 0 I would say just just briefly.

wow we've obviously got challenging Calderdale from from the pull out from CityFibre which is which is always difficult, so although it's a bit of gonna potentially built a local impacts, it also might affect sort of regional ambition and we saw it rarely I didn't worry that we're doing quite well in it in terms of 4G and digital rollout but we don't want to be left behind and that that's more of a reflection, not something that needs answering.

anyone want to pick out on that yeah, Stephen

Richard Butterfield, Advisory Representative (Historic England) - 1:52:23

yeah, I think I think this is great.

Stephen Moore - 1:52:29

I think it's really important and good piece of work, I think, just in terms of some kind of general observations, that we also need to be, as well as coverage, we need to be really clear on take-up

having the infrastructure is not the same as leveraging it, it's and it's good from an investor perspective.

but in order to reach the objectives that sit underneath all this that that really, I think we need to be clear on on that,

I would say we have a really clear plan in terms of the likes of coverage for schools because we're really gonna have a clear digital divide between the haves and the have-nots over the next 10 years anyway, as those that have got the coverage leverage the benefits and those that don't and in terms of employment it will create some some divide if the schools are not able to teach what the kids are gonna need in for those skills going forwards.

I think as well look at a barrier busting a big chunk of of how

investment rolls out and the the and how it is expedited is all to do with how it lands with local authorities and whether or not and that's Highways, that's planning that's all sorts of other departments, so I I would the s suggest there's there's there's more work to do in that.

a lot a lot, a close relationship with social housing is a very you know, it's also a good example, a lot of investment can get into areas if you can't get the wayleaves and legal permissions that it needs to be in order to some service those both homes.

l am conscious of time, I've only got a couple more leverage in those public sector assets as well. What can be used from a public sector perspective in order to stimulate investment or investment quicker, because it's all going to get there, it's about getting it there quicker and then the final point is just in terms of or other technology. I know we talk about gigabyte now and gigabyte capable areas, but actually we're moving beyond that, so we're looking at higher than gigs services 2 3 4 5 because they're starting to be a demand, believe it or not, for as a and other things move forward, there's a demand for even better connectivity, so I think it's just worth keeping that in scope as well. That was

Cllr Scott Patient Calderdale Council - 1:54:53

thank you, Councillor Stephen

Cathy Elliot, Advisory Representative (NHS West Yorkhire Integrated Care Board) - 1:54:58

Cathy, I ask everyone to be very concerned, all we are about to appoint a new chief digital information officer for West Yorkshire, NHS, West Yorkshire, so I think when they're in post will ask them to have a look at this and I think more broadly the NHS generally nationally is encouraging the public to use the NHS nurse at Moor, it has more functionality, so there's a bit of a pitch there please sign up to the app and use it and get your repeat prescriptions that way, so I think there's a few things that we can cross-reference, particularly when we get on you cheated the information for certain posts.

Cllr Scott Patient Calderdale Council - 1:55:29

that's great and this one, as it is probably a bit more time to shape this than perhaps the housing strategy from earlier recently. This is more about an endorsement of the general direction of travel, but hopefully we've picked out some bits. Do you want to briefly come back

Justin Wilson, Officer (West Yorkshire Combined Authority) - 1:55:43

on any of those just yeah so yeah? First of all, thank you for the comments. There'd been a constructive and helpful. I think I think it was useful, taking the document through committed this stage, so you can get that level of feedback. I think in the comments from Anthony Moore, I think a lot of those themes do fit with the collaboration element of the strategy. So I think it will come. We've built into the island. They quite neatly and equally just timing what we were thinking, since it is that partnership model whereby social housing links or even in terms of the school estate as well, so we'll definitely we've built in and completely noted anything comments from them as a café. It tends to the digital office. I think that collaboration between the public sector estate is key, so I am keen to

Cllr Scott Patient Calderdale Council - 1:56:22

explore that in future. Thank you OK, brilliant, that looks like a general endorsement and thank you Rye, really really good piece of work and really looking forward to seeing it develop and progress based on some of the things we said OK,

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13 Date of the Next Meeting

thank you everyone for bearing with me, we got there in the end, and thank you and ma yeah managed to manage to get everything in, and it's exactly one o'clock, but I do have one more right, so which is just to tell you when the when the next meeting is which is on Thursday the 30th of May, so I look forward to seeing the rest of you

then if you're up for election could look with that, and

and M and C on the other side. Thank you so much for really good meat,