West London Affordable Housing Group
The West London Affordable Housing Group is a forum for LA and RSL lead development officers. The group also implements and monitor the WL Action plan with specific reference to the delivery of affordable housing, and to distribute nominations for externally funded programmes between the 7 boroughs
Chair: Maggie Rafalowicz (maggie.rafalowicz@brent.gov.uk)
Click here to see the West London Housing Investment Guide 2008-11.
Other useful links:
Sub Regional Lettings protocol 2004 (London-wide)
Sub regional nominations
The Homes and Communities Agency (previously the Housing Corporation)allocates funding for new social and intermediate housing on a sub regional basis, and requires the nominations to the resulting new homes to be shared between the boroughs on a basis that reflects housing need whilst recognising the input from, and future impact on, the host borough.
The West London boroughs agreed a formula in 2006-8 to share nomination rights to new social housing, as required by the then Housing Corporation.
The West London formula provides that 50% of nominations to qualifying new social rented homes go to the host borough (including a premium of up to 25% for the developing RSL) with the remaining 50% of nominatons shared between the boroughs on the basis of housing need.
The formula also provides that there should be a cap on the total number of nominations any one borough has to put into the sub regional pot, equal to 20% of the boroughs qualifying development programme or 100 units, whichever is the least.
Contact details for queries on nomination rights:
Brent: christopher.winfield@brent.gov.uk
Ealing: mannerss@ealing.gov.uk
Hammersmith: Margaret.Green@lbhf.gov.uk
Harrow: elaine.slowe@harrow.gov.uk
Hillingdon: jmarkwell@hillingdon.gov.uk
Hounslow: nadja.stone@hounslow.gov.uk
RBK&C: sarah.evans@rbkc.gov.uk
Last updated: 08 August 2011