Annex 2 (GRI 02(b))
MOSSCARE HOUSING
Mosscare is a charitable association with a
strong community focus and active in neighbourhood regeneration.
It also has a non-charitable unregistered subsidiary. The association
owns over 2,500 units with particular concentrations of stock
in Moss Side, Hulme, Whalley Range and East Manchester. Approximately
10 per cent of its stock is supported housing.
East Manchester
Mosscare has been active in the Openshaw area
of East Manchester since circa 1997. The association has adopted
an innovative approach to dealing with the difficulties involved
in urban regeneration and has actively involved the local community
in developing proposals for the area. Although not one of the
Housing Corporation's Housing Regeneration Company Pilots, they
are generally regarded as carrying out many of the activities
anticipated for these organisations, particularly in the East
Manchester context, and are included by the pilots in their networking
arrangements.
Summary of Mosscare Housing's work in the Higher
Openshaw Initiative Area, Manchester
Mosscare Housing Limited & Rowlinsons New
Development: rent, sale, shared ownership, garden extensions,
offices;
Garden Crofts Improvement: community groups,
closures, housing improvements (rent, lateral conversions, sale
with gap funding);
Acquisition and Demolition (vacant): local authority
stock and private sector stock;
Temporary Social Housing/Re-improvements;
Group Repair Schemes/Facelift Works/Housing
Repair Grants;
Private sector stock/owner occupier housing
swaps/provision of mortgage finance;
Environmental Improvements: yellow brick road,
alleyways, garden schemes, Millennium Green, traffic calming,
street lighting, environmental team;
Community Groups/Education/Environment: housing
and environment initiative, housing and education programme;
Training and Employment Issues: New Deal Welfare
to Work, direct apprenticeships, local labour, cross tenure, caretaker
scheme;
Current & Future Issues :
Agency role—neighbourhood management/Housing
Regeneration Company;
Community Support Training & Enabling;
Area planning, co-ordination and management,
cross tenure;
Stock Transfers.
INCLUDE NEIGHBOURHOOD
REGENERATION LTD
Include marks the establishment of a pilot Housing
Regeneration Company in Liverpool. Include is a wholly owned subsidiary
of CDS Housing, which is a well established RSL, owning and managing
approximately 10,000 properties for clients in Merseyside.
Impact and Achievements
programme of acquisition and clearance of key
derelict/semi-derelict sites;
immediate programme of environmental improvements;
developing Liverpool's first wildflower meadow
on vacant and former derelict sites;
developing a Homezone in the Shorefields area;
working with the Sports Action Zone to develop
a successful bid to the New Opportunities Fund for the creation
of an athletics and tennis focused recreational ground;
established Include Environmental—a Residents'
Service Organisation as a response to the local communities' concern
over street cleaning, vacant land treatment and graffiti;
employed 12 local people and purchased three
electric vehicles to operate the new company;
launched Include Safer Neighbourhoods—one
of a series of 10 crime and community safety projects which include
CCTV installation, target hardening for repeat victims of crime;
access to HC funding totalling £5.3 million,
which has levered in additional investment of £4.7 million
for housing projects;
piloting new tools funding to deal with the
private sector element of the worst of the mixed tenure areas
in Dingle.
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