Place, Regeneration and Housing Committee - Thursday 30 May 2024, 11:00am - West Yorkshire Combined Authority Webcasting

Place, Regeneration and Housing Committee
Thursday, 30th May 2024 at 11:00am 

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1 Apologies for Absence

Cllr Denise Jeffrey, Chair (Wakefield Council) - 0:00:54
okay, okay, good morning, everyone and good to see everybody.
Miles, can you read out the Poges,
Apologies for absence had been received from Councillors, Moses, Crick
Myles Larrington, Committee Services Officer (West Yorkshire Combined Authority) - 0:01:08
and Alex Ross, Shaw, private sector representatives Ben Aspinall and Lisa Little fair and advisory representatives, Richard Butterfield and Tamsin Hop Jones.
Cllr Denise Jeffrey, Chair (Wakefield Council) - 0:01:21
okay, thank you for that declaration of interest, nothing Ben you want to yeah.
So I worked at the Diocese of Leeds, we are a part owner of the
Cllr Ben Burton (York Council) - 0:01:32
Dewsbury Riverside site in Dewsbury Bassetts, an update today and there is any decision, but you may just want to register interest by then I need to step off.

3 Declaration of Disclosable Pecuniary Interests

thanks that's fine, thank you for that, then.
Cllr Denise Jeffrey, Chair (Wakefield Council) - 0:01:45
One item 7 and 9 am will each contain some sensitive information, so we'll have the discussion, but if people want to raise questions, we can deal with it at the end of the meeting when we closed close the meeting, can we agree as eight minutes of the 29th of February?
Fully help you with that, thank you.

2 Minutes of the meeting held on 29 February 2024

it shows updates the
and just the marrow pledgers say the latest pledges, obviously.

5 Chair's Update

5,000 new affordable homes, local control of buses and spreads in the ground on the tram system, a region of learning and creativity with new skills and training system, and a plan to reduce serious violence on our streets and increase access to culture and sport for all children a programme to insulate all social homes.
And work is going on to develop the local growth plan aligned to the most manifesto commitments committee members will have the opportunity to outside the meeting to comment on the emerging priorities and ensure alignment with the wider policy programme, including the climate environment plan, Local Transport Plan and local nature reserve.
and anybody want to raise anything on that we all happy with the bloodshed, I'm sure we are, we can't get to a political we at Hogan, Avenue election period, so we need to be careful that we don't want to be looked at by lobbying.

6 Monitoring Indicators

So can we go on to one at Item 6 monitoring indicators serve, I'm sorry, Peter, no, thank you Chair, so just recap on the books of the paper, is to present new information that's become available against
Peter Glover, Officer (West Yorkshire Combined Authority) - 0:03:37
the selected indicators since the last meeting and in this instance that's relating to private rents and housing affordability and also this a second purpose was to respond to a request for further analysis there were raised at last meeting.
and those relate to energy efficiency and fuel poverty. So, just very quickly, to draw out some of the key messages in terms of private rents we have new. We now have new ONS data which allows us to look at changes over time in private rents at local authority level, and we have figures right up to February 2024, as you would expect. These show that average rents are much lower in West Yorkshire than nationally at around two thirds of the national average. However, since 2016 West Yorkshire rents have been rising faster than inflation and also at a faster rate than the national average, and that's primarily been driven by the positioning, Leeds or Wakefield
Turning to one of the the second key area of analysis around housing affordability, we provided a high level summary of the current position using a standard, the standard measure of the ratio of median house prices to median wages over apply that to the latest figures which relate to 2023, the analysis indicates that on an overall basis, housing is more affordable in West Yorkshire than nationally as you would expect and there's been little change in the sort of affordability ratio year on year, but a key message that would like to draw out is that
affordability in West Yorkshire is much closer to the national average when we focus on new dwellings only and in fact is in line with the national average for Leeds and Coakley's and that shows that housing, type and quality effects are comparison comparisons of affordability, it's also worth noting that the paper details the work the Combined Authority is doing to provide a pipeline of affordable housing or a third area that we've looked at in the paper either around energy efficiency and energy performance certificates.
And would prevent presented further analysis of performance responding to queries from the Committee very briefly.
One of the items we focused on is the scope for improving energy efficiency ratings in West Yorkshire dwellings. And what the analysis finds is that four fifths of dwellings, with a rating IPC rating of below C, have the scope to be raised to see, and there's more analysis in the in the data appendix we've also looked at the potential to reduce carbon emissions from dwellings with an APC and that finds that there is the potential for 42% reduction in emissions through identified improvements contained within APC's. Obviously, all these estimates are subject to the technical issues and limitations that are associated with IPC data and the way in which assessments are conducted and the fine layer I'd like to focus on is
Again was raised by the Committee at the last meeting and relating to health, that's all I asked to look at the evidence of the correlation between fuel poverty and health issues at granular spatial level, and studies show this is because the this year will link between fuel poverty and respiratory respiratory conditions and cardiovascular diseases and also excess winter deaths.
the issue we have here is that we don't have the data to look at the correlation between these issues at household or personal level, and when we look at small areas there is a strong correlation between fuel poverty and the health conditions I mentioned, and this seems to be due to the effective offsetting offsetting factors like age so for example in the pack we've shown that,
Exposure to fuel poverty is negatively correlated to age, so younger people are most likely to be affected by fuel poverty and the app that offsets any effects on our health we find, so that's a brief summary back to you Chair.
thanks very much Peter any questions anyone want to comment.
Cllr Denise Jeffrey, Chair (Wakefield Council) - 0:07:45
yes, can I say thank you them as a adviser coming from the NHS, thank
Cathy Elliot, Advisory Representative (NHS West Yorkhire Integrated Care Board) - 0:07:56
you, that's really really helpful overview, what we can do is take this initial analysis and then involved that and connect it with our business as usual winter planning, so in the NHS we're always planning for winter when we usually begin about six weeks' time, so I suggest that there's our joint colleague Jennifer Connolly and a senior colleague of mine who works on winter planning at Chair Anthony Kiely then picks this up and let's see where these lines of inquiry take us, including working with our acute provided collaborative of acute hospitals across West Yorkshire.
and also with our place, leads as well, so I think I think there's something here that we need to keep looking at the evidence that there might inform us in trying to connect your piece of work and to help if there's any missing data as well so we're better informed to support
Cllr Denise Jeffrey, Chair (Wakefield Council) - 0:08:51
those households, thank you thanks for that Catholic can we can we note the updates and if there's nothing else I'll sorry no, sorry,
Cllr Scott Patient Calderdale Council - 0:08:58
thank you and just a few things to pick out. I can't
think about private rental and housing costs and there's a bit of a concern really in relation to the cost of living crisis and especially for lower income houses unable to secure a home, especially in the social housing sector. So I would just think it might be helpful if Wicker Owen were able to consider local housing allowance rates as part of that future ongoing analysis and something we were talking about just just in advance of the meeting, and I wonder if there's a bit further research needed to get a bit more accurate understanding of the private rental market in the round as well. Landlords that operate within it. We've always found it well, there's been an open door with private private landlords and called it out so you'll get pinning them down, so any change or strategic thinking is always being challenged, and I'm sure that's not unique to call the dial. Housing tenure information is being collected with council tax billing accounts and called at all, and I'm not sure if that's true for other areas, but perhaps something to consider
I am mindful that it might take time to establish, but it could give us a bit more of an information on changing trends as things move forward, so just a few points that I hope that's okay.
Thanks to that.
Then?
Cllr Denise Jeffrey, Chair (Wakefield Council) - 0:10:18
Cllr Ben Burton (York Council) - 0:10:22
yeah, thank you, yeah, just on the private rental data, again afford not to ask the question now, but be good in future to understand kind of what supply of private rental properties available compared to how much demand there is if there's a way that we can do that because I think when the figures receive at the moment a lot is, you know, 10 15 people trying to apply for the same private rent, so it's early part of the story that the rents have gone up but actually has a lot of people who just can't physically find the rent in the first place, because there's so much demand for each one that some people have just been ruled out
For for various reasons, so I don't know how we'd capture that from a data point of view, but anything that we can do to understand that would be good, I think.
thank you.
Cllr Denise Jeffrey, Chair (Wakefield Council) - 0:11:07
and and is there any differentiation between student rent and like
Annette Joseph - 0:11:14
family, then all like individual men in there, especially in the private sector, because I would imagine that those numbers would be quite different, a few sections segmented the data.
So we can't look, I don't think we can look at that in the local
Peter Glover, Officer (West Yorkshire Combined Authority) - 0:11:31
database, something that we could explore more in sort of national the national evidence base and so on, to look at the the differential and any sort of issues arising out of that certainly one that we could report that to the next meeting.
Okay, anyone else, yeah yeah, thank you. The statistics, which should
Cllr Denise Jeffrey, Chair (Wakefield Council) - 0:11:51
be interesting up in the net position, because we talk a lot about the
Andy Wallhead, Advisory Representative (WY Housing Partnership) - 0:11:54
giving of new homes, but we lose homes every year through right to buy right to acquire, so I was at a meeting last week as part of the reef and Leeds were saying that although they built a record number of affordable homes last year, we also lost record number, so the net position was actually pretty much round 0
I think that's important because I was gonna push up the cost.
I mean that that's always an issue, isn't it always has been until
Cllr Denise Jeffrey, Chair (Wakefield Council) - 0:12:23
someone does changes, that I won't be political, but let's be careful.
Yes, sorry, Mr trick, that because I always forget to try and make
Cllr Scott Patient Calderdale Council - 0:12:34
weeks about the climate, energy environment, I think I've done it here so bear with me so yeah following following the last stock condition modelling research which I think was carried out about 10 years ago, maybe slightly less, and I wonder if we could support the local authorities, all of us with a stock condition survey analysis and link that swords, I guess, sort of the developing energy efficiency retrofit agenda to tackle carbon emissions as well. I just think if some of that read across the sorry just delightful
It got that warning.

7 Project Approvals - BHF Field Head Lane

Cllr Denise Jeffrey, Chair (Wakefield Council) - 0:13:09
Peter Egan, making out with all these things and come back to us, thanks very much if there's no-one else, can we yet, can we note the report and note the update thank you and item 7. It's project approvals Anfield headline. This is to present the refilled headlines game for approval for funding so it can progress through the Combined Authority. It's proposed that 32 affordable homes at Field Lane had pesto funded by the brownfield housing fund and
I think, and then also, we have said long to wait an update on Longsight enterprise zone in my area in Wakefield, so I'll hand over to Nicholas and Kate.
One is one, I'll talk you through the fuel headwind project again
Nicholas Kiwomya, Officer (West Yorkshire Combined Authority) - 0:14:01
pursued 100% affordable warmth in care, colleagues, Dobkin is registered provider and obviously we are seeking a grant to remediate one point before I took the blonde.
Which will develop for 2 affordable dwellings, will be a blend of 15 two-bedroom houses, fetching bedroom houses and 4, one bedroom, maisonettes or older properties when the scheme will be fit to reverse source, heat pump and solar panels, thus helping to reduce energy bills and help to tackle fuel poverty, in addition, the scheme will encourage up to travel by building a pedestrian link,
kitchen abuts from the site are within the wider Oakwell Country Park with book pedestrian and cycle route,
the scheme criteria the breadth of housing funded particularly the benefit cost ratio of one to one which is categorised as acceptable value for money.
Approval is sought to proceed through to the 2.2 to 4 busy justification and work commences on activity 5 delivery to give ruefully and approval of following false and foul favourite thousand from the brownfield housing fund.
Cllr Denise Jeffrey, Chair (Wakefield Council) - 0:15:09
Thank you for that, it's an exempt item, so if Members do want to discuss anything on this, we have to suspend the live straightaway.
okay, can we just note the report?
Thanks very much at Council,
thank you Chair, so length way enterprise zone the Enterprise Zone
Kate Thompson - 0:15:28
programme, is a legacy programme which previously had strategic oversight from the LEP Board and was established in 2017, covering 10 sites across the region, background information on the Enterprise Zone designation, is included within the report but I'm happy to cover any queries on that should Members require.
we're now looking to progress. Certain sites for the next stage of delivery, and the focus of today's update is the lightweight Enterprise Zone, which is one of our spatial priority areas and is a site owned by the Combined Authority in SE Wakefield in South Kirby. In July last year, the Combined Authority approved funding for the project of 12.7 million pounds to unlock the site, including additional land acquisition site, remediation, creation of a development platform and a new access road, and it is envisaged that in the future the site could accommodate in the region of 20,000 square metres of new commercial floorspace. So I am pleased to report daily that planning permission has now been granted. This section 1 0 6, and construction agreements have been signed and our contractor commenced site mobilisation earlier this week, so we are expecting the formal start on site towards the end of June, with approximately 12 months. Construction activity in terms of the future development of the site, the combined authorities head of commercial investment and development is currently working up future development proposals for the site, and a further update will come through this committee in due course. The development of the site does provide an opportunity to support economic equity activity in an area of deprivation. Thank you Chair.
Cllr Denise Jeffrey, Chair (Wakefield Council) - 0:17:17
OK thanks for that, Kay that's really good news for Wakefield uplifts, the for whom waiting for this borough, as for it's really good news.
can we
yes, and the field had Lightman, yes.
Cllr Denise Jeffrey, Chair (Wakefield Council) - 0:17:35
we are happy with that, yeah, anyone want to comment on that, no okay.
And then the
Cllr Denise Jeffrey, Chair (Wakefield Council) - 0:17:48
Strategic partnership and update.

8 Strategic Place Partnership Update

Natasha. Thank you Chair. So the purpose of the report, which will
Natascha Killin (West Yorkshire Combined Authority) - 0:17:58
take, as read, was to provide an update to the Committee on the focus areas and the strategic objectives outlined in the Strategic Place Partnership business plan, identifying some of the risks, the sport needs and outlined the actions we need to take in order to progress forward and, importantly, what the added value of the Strategic Place Partnership is really brief. Summary on the background for the SPV for anyone not familiar, so the West. Yorkshire devolution deal set out a commitment to develop a Strategic Place Partnership and in May 2023 the Combined Authority joined, together with homes, England, to establish the third national strategic place partnership
The model provides a framework to support the delivery, address, challenges and opportunities present across the region in improving good quality housing growth and regeneration the SBP builds on the West Yorkshire strategic priority areas by identifying areas with opportunities to catalyse housing growth and have a real impact towards achieving SBP strategic objectives.
focus areas were identified. UBS B P in each of the local authority areas where homes, England and the Combined Authority collaborating with local authority officers have focus resources to support realising the delivery of housing in strategically important locations. Over the last 12 months, we have seen interventions and progress made across the sites, and the paper draws out some of the specific work we've been doing in each of each district, so will take these. As read through the S. P P will continue to support our district partners on these sites through a series of interventions led by a local authority. Colleagues, in addition to working with our local authority partners on focus areas, we've also been working on the strategic objectives
strategic objective 1, which is to develop the investment ready proposals and unlock and accelerate housing delivery.
the main focus area here has been the housing developer forum, which was launched in January of this year in order to boss bolster cross-sector engagement, including representatives from local authorities, social housing providers and private developers all active across the region, following the success of the inaugural event earlier this year with now looking to propose a second housing.
Develop a forum, this event will serve as a platform for a robust discussion, industry, knowledge and invaluable networking opportunities aimed at addressing critical issues facing the housing development sector today, and we would welcome reflections from the Committee around the value of the farm at regional level strategic objective 2 around addressing support and opportunities to create and grow sustainable neighbourhoods and contributing to the region's net 0 ambitions, the main priority action under so too has been the commission of independent research to further understand the role of MMC modern methods of construction in the delivery.
Of sustainable homes relevant to West Yorkshire taken into account locally specific factors building on the work of other bodies, such as homes for the North and off-site homes alliance,
Some of the key themes coming out of the report we see is about opportunity and creating external factors to facilitate easier adoption and the integration of MC, looking at expertise, enhancing the skills and knowledge necessary to implement MMC effectively and motivation the desire amongst stakeholders to engage with and prioritise MMC and again we would refer welcome reflection from the committee in relation to these emerging themes and discussion from our appetite for appetite with MMC in the region and finally Strategic of Deputy 3 improving the good quality, improving the supply of good quality, affordable homes providing greater choice and opportunity for people to access homes.
The main work we're doing under this priority is extending the work carried out with Leeds City Council in 22 23 to explore models and increase affordable housing. Delivery to Bradford, Calderdale Kirklees and Wakefield the SBP has provided revenue funding and has worked closely with our local authority colleagues, to commission work and provide recommendations to increase affordable housing delivery. The current baseline assessment and engagement with stakeholders have been completed, Mark initial steps in the process and further to this next stage will include identifying areas of knowledge gaps, innovative practices and opportunities for up to four funding models and outlining opportunities for the delivery of more affordable homes and would welcome reflection from the Committee on what more could be done collaboratively to deliver more affordable housing
the partnership has demonstrated effective collaboration, showcasing significant added value over a number of key areas, principally funding aligning internal resources about adding value and avoiding duplication.
collaboration, we have identified projects where joined-up intervention is required and provided focus for West Yorkshire and help to align homes, England resources and, finally, local leadership, the relevant local authority partners are at the core of driving and delivering the focus area projects.
In the year since the establishment of the SBP, significant progress has been made to focus activity across key strategic housing opportunities in the region in the next 12 months, the SBP will focus on building on the partnership, by concentrating efforts to secure capital investment needed to release realise the delivery of strategic housing led projects increase affordable housing delivery across the region working together,
With West Yorkshire Housing Partnership to unlock the delivery of affordable homes and embed the delivery of plans, sorry bed, the delivery into ponds and deliver a strategic priority areas with tackling climate emergency.
the partnership has functions an essential enabler, effectively unlocking barriers to delivery and securing serving as a crucial tool in advancing our progress towards identifying opportunities and supporting the development of mortgage quality homes in the region.
Thank you for that.
Cllr Denise Jeffrey, Chair (Wakefield Council) - 0:23:17
Any any comments and aren't making comments to.
Thank you Chair.
I that sounds like slop, and the only thing I would just throw is that
Stephen Moore - 0:23:25
we've we've with all of them sees it is expensive in its development and if there are any linkages with support programmes that are offered by the Combined Authority for capital investment or skills then it would be good to make sure those linkages are really explored.
Thank you.
It states.
Cllr Denise Jeffrey, Chair (Wakefield Council) - 0:23:53
Thanks yeah on them, so you.
Cllr Ben Burton (York Council) - 0:23:56
a massive candour proponent of MMC especially kind of fully volumetric schemes, because I think it's really good way to bring forward good quality homes. The big challenge with it is, you've got a decide that you're going to use fully volume, a trick at the very start of the process, or else it costs to change. You have a clear commitments at how much buy-in we've seen and we've seen partners who want to are actually planning to design schemes from the beginning of MMC and working through that process of off-site allowance or what's the kind of buy-in that we've seen at this stage from partners on this
I could come back on that.
I am happy to come back on that in an interview, but obviously we are
Natascha Killin (West Yorkshire Combined Authority) - 0:24:38
looking to do more work, so the report was looking at a very wide scale in the region in terms of what the opportunities are, so we are seeing a number of people who are taking up wholeheartedly the MMC product and a number of people who are obviously still not ready to commit to that level so we can come back to the committee and provide a bit more update in terms of specific details, but it is a very mixed bag at the moment that you have mentioned.
That's great, thank you, if you could, she could do that that would be great
Cllr Denise Jeffrey, Chair (Wakefield Council) - 0:25:06
Item 9.

9 Cultural Heritage Capital Projects

Cllr Scott Patient Calderdale Council - 0:25:16
Thank you Chair, just just to say it's really good, I know you know, we're really pleased, specifically around the affordable housing commission aspect of things, and I know we've played a bit of a part part in that and the developer forum as well.
I guess just a bit of a note from our officers say which is round there and the benefits of collaborative working and how we've seen that through the North Halifax transformation programme and we work in, as you probably know, with homes England to secure brownfield infrastructure, I guess, though as well like in the current climate of councils and funding and all that kind of thing I guess just to shout, sir, that if there is a possibility to support boots on the ground in our local authorities to enhance gainshare going forward because I know I'm sure I'm sure I do I don't know what different councils arrangements are but I'm sure in other spaces supporting that development and work with developers.
might be might be being done with a little bit of sleight of hand and juggling of resources and taking a bit of money from here to support there, so just a wider thinking about supporting the infrastructure on the ground in places like Calderdale, but I'm sure it applies to other places as well.
Yeah yeah, I think that's I think that's a good idea Scott, I think,
Cllr Denise Jeffrey, Chair (Wakefield Council) - 0:26:30
with that old hope, with some of his officers and held that we were having an away day with the Mayor.
And we are going to be looking at our resources, so we'll come back on that.
can we note the update, everybody happy with that?
Feedback, etc OK.
Cllr Denise Jeffrey, Chair (Wakefield Council) - 0:26:53
Item 9, our cultural heritage for capital projects, an item at Appendix 1 is the exempt item, so if Members wish to discuss this, we'll have to stop the live streaming.
If not.
Kate Thompson - 0:27:11
thank you, Chair sorry, I am mindful that it's been a little while since the Committee had an update on the British Library North particularly, and there is therefore a quite a lot of detail in the report and the exempt appendix I'd also like to bring to the Committee's attention that in discussion with the Mayor and the culture heritage and sport committee it's been agreed that this committee, with its focus on place and regeneration, will focus on the capital project and the culture committee will focus on the end vision for the British Library and the cultural and creative opportunities that that affords for our region and the sub region.
So it's a quick recap on the capital projects. 25 million was awarded through the devolution deal with government to 2020 to support the establishment of a British Library North in Leeds and a strategic outline case that was approved by the Combined Authority in July 2021 together with 5.3 5 million for development costs British Library have identified the Temple Works site in Holbeck as their preferred location and this is within combined authority spatial priority area, the building's Grade 1 listed it's in private sector ownership and in 2008 suffered a partial collapse and that severely restricted access on health and safety grounds.
The project has increased momentum at the moment following the government's allocation of a further 10 million for the project, as announced in the spring budget, through levelling up fund round three for nationally significant cultural projects and in addition, homes England have earlier this year signed a memorandum of understanding with the new owners of the building CJ and this is to move forward with discussions on a potential acquisition of Temple Works and bring it into public sector control further details on the terms of the LAF 3 funding are awaited and obviously we are now in a pre-election period.
so the British Library, North and Temple Works particularly, are extremely complex projects and there are a number of partners, including the British Library, Leeds City Council, central government, and now he homes, England and the partnerships worked hard to solve some of the complexities around the building and to move the project forward historic England it's definitely worth noting have also provided significant funding to C J for repair works.
It is envisaged that the public sector partners will enter into a collaboration agreement over the summer to confirm respective roles and responsibilities, and it is currently envisaged that the Combined Authority will continue in its role as accountable body for the government grant and, as I've said, a further financial commercial details can be found in the exempt appendix.
So today, given the passage of time since that SOC approval, we're looking for an endorsement from the committee rather than an approval, to the direction of travel of the project, as outlined in the report, and future funding of feasibility survey and design work routed via the Leeds City Council. Noting minimal costs to date have been incurred future funding from the 5 million previously approved by the Combined Authority, as development costs is to include the funding of RIBA to costs incurred by the British Library of 656,000 pounds and also today, which has requested inclusion of Leeds City Council's project management costs.
And that these be granted from the previously approved 350,000, which was proved with combined authorities internal p m, costs.
in due course, project sponsors will submit a change request to the Combined Authority, outlining the next steps for the project.
That is my update on the British Library North, as the Chair has said, there is an exempt appendix which we can pick out of the livestream if P Members have queries. I would also like to quickly update on the national poetry centre, as also in the spring budget, there was an announcement of 5 million towards a proposed centre in Leeds. The national poetry centre aims to create the country's first dedicated national headquarters for poetry and a short summary of the vision is included within the report. The proposed site is the former Trinity St David's Church, sorry, it's opportunity, St David's Church on Woodhouse Lane
This is in the ownership of the university fleets and it's a Grade II listed building the national poetry centre, working closely with the university council and Arts Council England to bring forward the project further information will be provided in due course once a business case is submitted through our assurance framework this capital project will also fall within the remit of this thematic committee. Thank you Chair,
Cllr Denise Jeffrey, Chair (Wakefield Council) - 0:32:19
Thanks very much for that, Kay, as I say, if anyone wants to discuss the we can discuss it at the end of the meeting, the recommendation that the committee is requested to note the report's contents and endorse the use of previously approved development costs for the British Library North project which includes payment for Abbey a stage 2 project management costs for Leeds City Council feasibility studies, surveys and entering grant funding agreements to progress the project.

10 Date of Next Meeting

Okay, okay, thanks very much, and the date of next meeting, I assume we're waiting for the Combined Authority to to set the dates for that, so would be in touch with that thanks very much at clubs, the former partners meeting thanks very much.