Each of the 14 local authorities will receive up to £50,000 to pay for expert advice
More than a dozen local authorities have successfully applied to join the Local Government Association’s Housing Advisers Programme (HAP).
The HAP, which is in its third year, pays for independent advice for councils looking to carry out specific projects such as housebuilding, ageing population planning and increasing the supply of modular housebuilding.
The LGA has awarded up to £50,000 to each of the successful 14 applicant local authorities.
Projects being lined up include developing carbon-neutral homes, redesigning homelessness services, delivering custom and self-build housing, and addressing the housing skills gap.
The LGA said as in previous years the knowledge and expertise learnt and developed would be shared with other councils and become part of its sector-led improvement offer.
This year’s successful HAP applicants:
- Bristol city council
- Broadland district council with South Norfolk council
- Cotswold district council (in partnership with Forest of Dean district council & West Oxfordshire district council)
- Essex county council (in partnership with all district councils)
- Greater Manchester Combined Authority
- Harrogate council
- Kirklees council
- London borough of Enfield
- London borough of Islington (in partnership with London Housing Director’s Group)
- Oxford City Council with West Oxfordshire district council
- Shropshire Council
- Somerset West & Taunton (in partnership with all Somerset district councils)
- Stoke-On-Trent city council
- West of England Combined Authority (Bath & North East Somerset council, North Somerset council and South Gloucestershire council)
- Wokingham borough council
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