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AI Development- your partner to successful RSL Development
Need help with new HC funding, MMC, audit compliance, sustainability, Egan?
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Delivering Solutions
Adams Integra is able to demonstrate substantial social housing experience across all these issues. We have a reputation for delivering development solutions and forming excellent partnerships with a wide variety of social housing providers.
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Expertise & Enthusiasm
We have the expertise, skill, knowledge and above all, enthusiasm to help your organisation to deliver a sustainable, efficient development programme and meet the challenges of combining best VFM, target rents, HQIs, and Client Charter compliance to produce quality homes. Our consultants have worked for local authorities, housing associations and developers and have maintained contacts in order to assist our clients.
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Experience & Understanding
Adams Integra has the first hand and in-depth experience to offer you all of the following:
• A thorough experience of the whole development process.
• Understanding and knowledge of Housing Corporation procedures and practices, including the new preferred partner arrangements.
• Provision of customised Development procedure manuals
• Forming partnerships of RSL’s to obtain HC preferred partner status.
• Compilation of development strategies, bids and submissions.
• Assisting with non-SHG solutions to affordable housing
• Maximising development opportunities having regard to value for money, sustainability, Clients Charter, quality homes, benchmark rents, best practice and Housing Plus/Community Development.
• Financial risk assessment, planning and forecasting.
• Experience of working with development agency agreements.
• An understanding of contract and legal processes.
• Analysis of local markets and identification of local housing need.
• Training staff, board members and tenants on all issues relating to the development process, inc development project management.
• Resident participation, esp in relation to estate regeneration and masterplanning
• Experience of MMC (inc OSM) projects; including contacts with technical consultants, suppliers and contractors in the field
• Experience at all levels of working in partnership with staff, members, tenants, stakeholders and key members of the local community.
• Providing audit health-checks to ensure HC compliance, inc for Challenge funding and partner funding
• Assisting with asset management, devising strategies, stock condition survey briefs, Decent Homes, and planned maintenance programmes
• Expertise in HQIs and EcoHomes plus Smart housing
• Equality of opportunity throughout the development process.
Today's social housing developers must be prepared to provide solutions which are demonstrably part of an overall local and regional strategy for sustainable quality housing. Adams Integra has the experience of designing and developing a wide range of housing solutions from new build to refurbishment, from regeneration to rural housing and general family to special needs housing, to various forms of home-ownership, including shared and fixed equity.
We have experience of providing development agency solutions customised to meet your particular needs.
We can help you develop model arrangements for partnerships or partnering. We can advise your organisation on applying for and implementing the Client Charter action plan, developing a sustainable development strategy, Housing Quality Indicators, KPI’s, and EcoHomes.
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Working with your development team
We provide long or short-term cover for your senior development staff on a locum or agency basis. We are experienced in providing strategic or individual project management. We can help you to develop partnerships, provide expert assistance to compile bids and submissions for funding projects, or strategic and practical advice on the development procedures.
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Providing the Framework
We are well versed in ensuring the right organisational methods are applied to your requirements, particularly in liaison with the Housing Corporation, local authorities, your funders and other key housing bodies.
We can help you provide housing development procedures, policies and agreements, Egan/Clients Charter, advise on risk assessment and management, procurement inc tendering, negotiation and partnership principles, sustainability policies.
We are able to provide training and guidance for staff, tenants and members.
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Business Development
We work with organisations to closely examine development and business opportunities. We are working with a number of housing associations that wish to increase the geographic scope of their development portfolio.
Our consultants have experience of working with local authorities, LSVT housing associations, housing trusts and traditional RSLs.
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Negotiating Projects
Section 106 opportunities.
We have successfully negotiated with local authorities the provision of exception policy sites. Adams Integra were involved in the largest PPG3 site in England, which provided 120 new homes.
To assist with exception planning sites we have put in place arrangements with national and regional developers to carry out their obligations under Section 106 agreements.
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Project Appraisal & Project Management
We are qualified and experienced in the field of scheme development, technical advice, architecture, planning, types of procurement, methods of construction/fabrication, design, crime and disorder considerations. We can provide development feasibility studies and development plan policies to complement your housing strategies. We are also very active in providing a wide variety of briefing packages for housing organisations, complementary to stock business and development.
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Health checks for compliance assurance
We ensure that at all stages of the development process there is the appropriate level of monitoring and management and that continuous risk assessment and controls are in place. We are familiar with the needs of housing associations and the requirements of internal and external audit and monitoring bodies, and offer user-friendly early warning audits to assist in compliance.
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Further Information
For an initial conversation, or to request more information please contact:
Keith Searle
Tel: 01243 771304
e-mail keithsearle@adamsintegra.co.uk
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