Leeds City Council

During the past few years, we have seen the cost of homes and land rise faster than regional and national rates.

We have experience of delivering affordable housing in high value areas across the city, but finding new ways of doing this is becoming more and more difficult. For a number of years, grants from the Housing Corporation have helped Registered Social Landlords (RSLs) to build new homes. However, due to the increase in land values in Leeds Registered Social Landlords have found it harder to build affordable homes using grants alone. This has meant that the only way to provide affordable housing in high value areas has been through the planning system.

Improved communication and closer working between housing and planning teams has led to shared strategies and policies, and joint negotiations. This has brought an increase in the number of new affordable homes in the city.

City of York Council

High house prices and private rents together with a housing waiting list of over 3,000 households means that we must increase the number of affordable homes we deliver.

In recent years, open market land values have priced housing associations out of bidding for sites. In addition, there are very few council owned housing sites of any significant size available. This means that delivering affordable housing through planning gain on private developments has taken on a huge significance.  We have secured more than 80% of recent new affordable housing through this route.

The council works closely with housing associations and private developers to deliver affordable homes, and to find new ways of increasing the number of them in the city.  We also explore ways of reducing the number of homeless households through preventative work, as well as giving advice on low cost home ownership options.

Harrogate Borough Council

Property prices in Harrogate are very high and development land is generally in short supply, adding to the difficulty of providing affordable housing. 

For a number of years, the Council has worked very successfully with the Housing Corporation and our joint commissioning (Housing Association) partners to provide as much affordable housing as possible on all available sites.  We will continue to do this and seek other innovative ways of increasing affordable housing provision in order to address our district's housing needs problem.

Home Housing

Home Housing is one of the UK's largest providers of affordable housing, care and support and we are committed to creating thriving communities where people want to live.  Our central region covers the Yorkshire and Midlands areas, where we currently own and manage 3,500 properties, and we have an ambitious development plan.

We have worked with all three local authorities across the Golden Triangle area. We have also worked with the Housing Corporation to deliver the largest grant-funded affordable housing programme in the region.

Yorkshire Housing Group 

Yorkshire Housing Group works with over 20 local authority partners, mainly in Yorkshire.  We manage 14,000 homes and build over 300 homes a year.  Some of our work is within the Golden Triangle area and we have good relationships with all of the Golden Triangle local authorities.  We are experienced in delivering affordable homes by developing site and working creatively with developers and local authorities through the planning system.  We also undertake mixed tenure developments, which may include affordable housing as well as discounted homes and full market housing for sale and rent.

Accent Housing Group

Accent Yorkshire is the non-stock owning, management company within the Accent Group.  We draw on the many resources of Accent as a community investment business. We work strategically and operationally with our local authority partners to address the housing and related needs of Yorkshire people.

Nationally Accent is a lead partner with the Housing Corporation for its affordable housing programme. Locally we have housing stock in all three of the Golden Triangle areas. We have pledged to work with the members of the Partnership to alleviate the need of many people in the area for affordable quality accommodation.

This will be by a variety of types and tenures to suit the differing circumstances of people who need to secure or improve their position in the housing market.  Where possible, we will find ways of adding extra value to developments and bringing other benefits such as employment opportunities or community facilities.