Hi,
A very interesting question...and one I too would be keen to hear more about.
Habinteg Housing's campaign https://www.habinteg.org.uk/foraccessiblehomes and their Accessible Housing Policy Update last year https://www.habinteg.org.uk/reports-and-briefings/accessible-housing-policy-update-2017-1104 Page 6 refers to Greater Manchester and Liverpool's draft Local Plan. (I think Leeds too)
They also did a FOI survey in 2016 of local authorities asking councils if they had policies to build to
the Lifetime Homes Standard - the results showed strong approaches in Reading, Wokingham, Sevenoaks, Leicester, Leeds, Peterborough, and Eastleigh. Although taken as a whole, of the 266 councils that responded just, only 8.2% of councils had both policy and monitoring in place15.
I believe Cornwall require a % to Category 2.
I think Housing LIN had an interactive tool to find out which councils were building to LTH/Cat 2.
There seems to be very little information regarding Category 3 outside London and I also think some Local Authorities think that just requiring a % of Category 2 is enough and possibly misunderstand the term 'accessible and adaptable' and do not understand that it is general needs housing.
Hope this helps...
Jacquel Runnalls
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Subject: Re: Cat 2 and Cat 3 Housing Standards
Hi
Hull City Council have just had their local plan accepted with private housing having to provide 25% M4-2 and if social housing 50%. Everything else M4-1, nothing on M4-3.
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On 17/01/2018, 13:36, "Accessibuilt list on behalf of Darryl Smith" <[log in to unmask] on behalf of [log in to unmask]> wrote:
Hi All,
I'm trying to get a rich picture of which Local Authorities (outside of London) have made real progress through their core strategies, supplementary planning policies, preferred partnership arrangements etc... which is/will result in housing being built to Cat2 and Cat 3 standards.
Any leads/organisations to contact, I'd be grateful.
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Darryl Smith
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