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What's New
Teacher training sessions *New*
A SELHP Training session has been developed which aims to introduce teaching and school staff to housing and homelessness issues which affect young people. The sessions will take place on 3rd, 17th and 24th March 2010.
Please click link below for further details
Domestic Violence Awareness Training - 19 March 2010
The training course has been kindly sponsored by Housing for Women who are celebrating 75 years of service delivery to women across London especially those who are domestic abuse survivors. Please find a link to their website: http://hfw.org.uk/ .
For training outline please click link below:
The partnership is working with Town & Country HA to offer housing opportunities in the Folkestone area to social housing tenants who currently under occupy larger homes. More details can be found on our flyer or by clicking here.
In January we completed a review of the Local Housing Allowance in SE London.
In December 2009 Shared Intelligence completed a review of the partnership.
The 2009 SELHP Conference was held on November 24th at Lewisham Civic Suite. The presentations and papers used at the event - and a feedback form - can be found on our Conference 2009 webpage.
In November the partnership ratified simple reciprocal arrangements for re-housing households fleeing domestic violence. The arrangements follow on from a Joint Working Agreement that was adopted earlier in the year.
The latest SE London Housing Market Trends Bulletin covers the first two quarters of 200-9-10.
A (joint SW and SE sub regional) South London Overcrowding Best Practice workshop was held on November 13th in Croydon. Click here to see the presentations.
The most recent SE London New Homes Show (low cost home ownership) was held at the Great Hall, Bromley Civic Centre, on October 10th. Just under 500 people attended - the greatest level of attendance so far for one of our sub regional new homes shows.
Please note that the leaflet about Low Cost Home Ownership options in SE London that was widely distributed earlier in the year is no longer entirely accurate since, from April 2009, the 'Open Market HomeBuy' products known as MyChoice Homebuy and Own Home have been withdrawn. Until the leaflet is revised we suggest referring instead to a summary provided by housingoptions.
As a result of a customer led review of homelessness services in all 5 SE London boroughs, the boroughs have agreed some minimum standards for housing options centres.
The partnership's Wheelchair Homes Design Guide has recently been revised. The requirements of the guide are identical to the Greenwich guide.
Boroughs are working with an agency called Off the Streets and into Work (OSW) to promote the Career Move scheme that uses coaching to help homeless people address barriers to work
In September we provided brief responses to the Draft London Design Guide and the Audit Commission's Draft Strategic Approach to Housing Key Lines of Enquiry.
Our Think! Before You Leave Home booklet has had some minor amendments. Copies of this 3rd edition have now been printed.
Homelessness statistics from the 5 SE London boroughs for April to June 2009 show a continuing fall in homeless applications and the number of households in temporary accommodation.
A summary of shared ownership sales in SE London in 2008-9 also suggests trends over the last few years and offers a comparison with sales through the MyChoiceHomeBuy scheme.
The SE London Inter Borough Nominations Protocol has recently been revised. A brief one page guide summarises this.
We have collated quarterly figures about mortgage repossessions between 2007 and 2009. These figures suggest a decrease in repossessions in both SE London and London as a whole since a peak in 2008.
The partnership has recently provided responses to 3 different consultation exercises:
The Homes and Communities Agency has announced allocation of the Social Homes Energy Savings Programme (SHESP). This includes funding for insulating the following number of dwellings that have hard to treat cavity walls:
Greenwich 1446
Lewisham 1900
Southwark 5809
Meanwhile, the results of bids for Retrofitting for the Future (Technology Strategy Board) have also been announced. Greenwich, Southwark and Keniston HA will get the opportunity to 'eco retrofit' some social housing properties.
Over 150 landlords attended the 2009 SE London Landlord Day that was held at Lewisham Civic Suite on June 23rd. For more details including the presentations that were used - click here.
A report produced for the partnership by FamilyMosaic reviews the provision of employment and training schemes by housing associations in SE London.
A good practice guide about rent arrears and debt has been produced by the SE London Housing Association preventing homelessness sub group and the partnership's homelessness co-ordinator.
A report into housing association stock rationalisation in SE London on behalf of SE London Housing Association's stock rationalisation sub group has been produced by John Morris (housing consultant). The report reviews the issues involved and highlights good practice.
Links to CLG documents and consultation papers can be found on our Strategy Group page.
