Supplementary A - London Borough of Hillingdon

London Development Association (LDA), £45,000 from Hillingdon Community Trust and
£175,000 from Section 106 funds. The total value of the two projects will be £1 million.
These will provide an opportunity for young entrepreneurs who may be school leavers or
young people in the community to start their own businesses within a managed and
supported environment. The additional fourteen units will be available in late Summer 2007.
Adult Social Care, Health and Housing
• Social Services is modernising its services as the property portfolio and the model of support
and care that it supports is no longer considered suitable for delivering modern services.
The area with the largest in-house provision is services to people with learning disabilities,
but there is also an urgent need to modernise mental health accommodation provision, older
person’s day care, day care for people with disabilities, and accommodation in children’s
services.
• The Mental Health Modernisation Programme is well advanced with accommodation
requirements identified and projects underway to modernise Council owned properties. This
includes the replacement of a hostel and group home with modern self contained
accommodation on the same sites.
• The Learning Disabilities Modernisation Programme is also underway but the scale of the
modernisation required is much greater than the Mental Health modernisation and will
require substantial capital resources. Officers are working on preparing proposals that will
make best use of Council and other assets and resources to procure good quality modern
accommodation for the client group and service requirements.
• A review of day services is underway and this will result in action plans to modernise day
services for adult social care clients including older people, people with learning disabilities,
and people with physical and sensory disabilities.
• The Department will also be reviewing the process for procurement of temporary
accommodation for homeless households in order to meet the government’s target to halve
the number of households in temporary accommodation by 2010. This review will also look
at the procurement of accommodation for unaccompanied asylum seeking children.
• The need to modernise services resulted in a project to replace eight obsolete HRA hostels
with modern homes. The project is progressing with the objective of the sale of a number of
the hostels on the open market and using the receipts to fund the development of modern
affordable homes on the remainder of the sites.
• The Department has carried out an HRA asset review to identify underutilised HRA sites
including garage courts, amenity and play areas, and the shops portfolio. Sites with
residential development potential will be included in an asset strategy with the aim of best
matching up resources to the modernisation programmes and affordable housing provision.
• The biggest need for new homes is for affordable homes for the 1,800 homeless households
in temporary accommodation and the circa 8,000 other households who have applied to the
Council for affordable housing. The Department will continue to look for ways to expand the
provision of affordable homes utilising, where possible, existing council assets such as HRA
sites.
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