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Position Statements

Working Groups

ARCH is representing its members on a number of influential groups that are overhauling housing policy and finance. If you have any ideas/comments regarding these groups, please contact us.

ARCH representatives are involved in a number of working groups set up to feed into the Housing Revenue Account and Housing Subsidy Review, implementation of the Housing and Regeneration Bill and other key housing management matters. These include (click for more information):

Group HRA & Housing Subsidy Review
Desciption Comprehensive review of housing finance and the housing subsidy system trailed in the Green Paper and the Housing and Regeneration Bill. The LGA have set up a working party to co-ordinate a local authority response to this initiative.
Run by Local Government Association (LGA)
Arch Rep Ken Florey
Head of Finance, LB Wandsworth

Group Review of the Housing Revenue Account Subsidy System - Rents and service charges workstream
Desciption Comprehensive review of housing finance and the housing subsidy system trailed in the Green Paper and the Housing and Regeneration Bill. CIH are facilitating workstreams to feed into the review
Run by Communities for Local Government (CLG) & HM Treasury – facilitated by CIH
Arch Rep Ken Florey Head of Finance, LB Wandsworth

Group Review of the Housing Revenue Account Subsidy System - current rules governing a local authority’s HRA workstream
Desciption Comprehensive review of housing finance and the housing subsidy system trailed in the Green Paper and the Housing and Regeneration Bill. CIH are facilitating workstreams to feed into the review
Run by Communities for Local Government (CLG) & HM Treasury – facilitated by CIH
Arch Rep John Bibby
Director of Housing & Community Services City of Lincoln Council

Group Cross domain advisory panel on social housing
Desciption Advising on the remit for the new social regulator.
Run by CLG
Arch Rep Brian Reilly
Deputy Director of Housing, LB Wandsworth

Group Housing Advisers Group
Desciption Strategic group to feed into LGA policy.
Run by LGA
Arch Rep Graham Stratford
Head of Service in Community Housing & Community Development Oxford City Council

Group Local performance information – steering group
Desciption A proposal for a single system of standardised local performance information capable of being collated by OFTENANT at a national level
Run by Housemark – funded by the Housing Corporation
Arch Rep John Bibby
Director of Housing & Community Services, City of Lincoln Council

David Marshall
Housing Development Manager, Wandsworth BC