{"id":45,"date":"2013-11-27T16:52:05","date_gmt":"2013-11-27T16:52:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hortonstrategic.com\/?page_id=45"},"modified":"2025-04-14T10:56:17","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T09:56:17","slug":"projects","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/hortonstrategic.com\/?page_id=45","title":{"rendered":"SE HDG"},"content":{"rendered":"

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South East Housing and Development Group <\/strong><\/h2>\n

(SE HDG)<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Terms of Reference <\/strong><\/h2>\n

February 2025<\/h4>\n

Aims and Objectives:<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/address>\n

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  • Convene\u00a0 – <\/strong>to convene key players and thought leaders (including MHCLG, Homes England, SEC, Thames Estuary Growth Board, councils, developers, housing associations, garden communities, health) involved to achieve good plan-led growth and meet housing need.<\/li>\n
  • Work collaboratively\u00a0 – <\/strong>Promote the benefits of housing and commercial development, to make sure everyone has a meaningful livelihood and a home that meets their needs.<\/li>\n
  • Support good plan-led growth ambitions\u00a0 –<\/strong>\u00a0to provide support and advocacy to areas with ambitious growth plans, including the delivery of related objectives of regeneration, good plan-led growth, Garden Communities and New Towns.<\/li>\n
  • Encourage and support councils to successfully review and deliver against their local plans and housing strategies – <\/strong>work collaboratively with the Kent Chief Planners, Essex Planning Officers Association and East Sussex Planning Officer, Kent Housing Group, Essex Housing Officers Group and the East Sussex Housing Partnership Board to support the contribution that they have in promoting accelerated housing delivery.<\/li>\n
  • Identify and remove the barriers to accelerate housing delivery – w<\/strong>orking collaboratively with Kent Housing and Development Group (KHDG), Developers East Sussex (DES), Essex Developers Group (EDG) and other interested parties to identify and remove obstacles to accelerate housing and commercial development, assembling evidence and finding solutions.<\/li>\n
  • Promote best practice – <\/strong>supporting events and meetings to share best practice and information to support all to the standard of the best, widening opportunity for joint working with business through engagement and attendance at the Developer groups and public sector partnerships across the SE area. (Kent, Essex, East Sussex and more widely when beneficial.)<\/li>\n
  • Look across locality boundaries – <\/strong>looking at the plans and proposals across the SE HDG operating area and of neighbouring areas and their impact in preparing for good plan led accelerated growth, including Local Government Reform and Devolution.<\/li>\n
  • Promote the accelerated delivery of Affordable Housing and Supported and Specialist Housing – <\/strong>to work in partnership with Homes England and other public and private partners to raise awareness of the opportunities to accelerate housing delivery that meets the corporate objectives of local authorities to reduce homelessness, improve affordability, reduce care expenditure, and support independent lifelong living.<\/li>\n
  • Lower Thames Crossing (LTC) and Strategic Infrastructure – <\/strong>to identify opportunities and barriers to maximise regional housing growth in response to the Lower Thames Crossing and other strategic. Identify changes in wider government policy, and key decisions required, to minimise these barriers to accelerating housing delivery and feed these back up through the LTC Benefits Steering Group to the Wider Benefits Steering Group.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    Operation:<\/strong><\/p>\n

    The group will meet virtually 6x per year on Google Meet.<\/strong><\/p>\n

    Members of the group will:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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    • Attend each meeting, or if unable to attend, endeavour to send a representative.<\/li>\n
    • Inform the organisation they represent of progress made by SE HDG and consult them on key issues and recommendations.<\/li>\n
    • Treat any information received and discussed with sensitivity and where appropriate in confidence.<\/li>\n
    • Tasks from each meeting will be agreed by the SE HDG and will be reviewed at each meeting.<\/li>\n
    • Members agreeing to undertake tasks will liaise with the group where necessary and feedback progress.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

      Membership:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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      • SE HDG to be a collaborative forum with membership drawn from representative public and private sector organisations and partnerships in Kent, Essex and East Sussex.<\/li>\n
      • The Chair and Co-Vice Chairs will be drawn from Essex Developers Group (EDG), Developers East Sussex (DES) and Kent Housing and Development Group (KHDG).<\/li>\n
      • The agenda will be circulated in advance of the meeting to ensure appropriate representation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

        Support: <\/strong><\/p>\n

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        • The Strategic Housing Advisor will convene, advocate on behalf and represent the group locally and nationally to deliver the aims and objectives of the group and its strategic partners.<\/li>\n
        • Horton Strategic will provide the secretariat for the group and offer support in terms of administrative duties, advice or endorsement of projects undertaken by the SE HDG.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

          Membership:<\/strong><\/p>\n

          Chair: Nick Fenton<\/strong> \u2013 KHDG<\/p>\n

          Co-Vice Chair: Mark Curle<\/strong> \u2013 EDG<\/p>\n

          Co-Vice Chair: Jonathan Buckwell<\/strong> \u2013 DES<\/p>\n

          KHDG \u2013 Kent Housing and Development Group<\/p>\n

          EDG \u2013 Essex Developers\u2019 Group<\/p>\n

          DES \u2013 Developers East Sussex<\/p>\n

          SEC \u2013 South East Consortium<\/p>\n

          KHG \u2013 Kent Housing Group<\/p>\n

          EHOG \u2013 Essex Housing Officers Group<\/p>\n

          ESHPB \u2013 East Sussex Housing Partnership Board<\/p>\n

          SEHG \u2013 South Essex Housing Group<\/p>\n

          EPOA \u2013 Essex Planning Officers Association<\/p>\n

          KCPOG \u2013 Kent Chief Planners Officers Group<\/p>\n

          ESPOG \u2013 East Sussex Planning Officers\u2019 Group<\/p>\n

          NHF \u2013 National Housing Federation (Registered Provider (RP) representation)<\/p>\n

          MHCLG \u2013 Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government<\/p>\n

          Homes England<\/p>\n

          LTC \u2013 Lower Thames Crossing<\/p>\n

          TEGB \u2013 Thames Estuary Growth Board<\/p>\n

          SE Garden Communities<\/p>\n

          Kent, Essex and East Sussex Functional Economic Area UTLA leads.<\/p>\n

          North Essex Councils<\/p>\n

          South Essex Councils<\/p>\n

          (Open Invitation to lead roles in County Level local economic planning functions and previous SELEP Board Champion\/s)<\/em><\/p>\n

          Secretariat: <\/strong><\/p>\n

          Brian Horton \u2013 SE HDG – Strategic Housing Advisor (Horton Strategic Limited)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

          brian@hortonstrategic.com<\/strong><\/p>\n

          07970 141718<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/address>\n

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