Neighbourhoods and Regeneration
Neighbourhoods and Regeneration will be working to ensure the delivery of the safe, green and clean agenda; successful neighbourhoods; and putting Hackney on the map. The main functions are:
- Regeneration and Planning
- Safer Neighbourhoods
- Public Realm
- Housing Needs
- Performance and Strategy
- Directorate Finance
Aims and ambitions
Making Hackney a better place for residents, investors and visitors by:
- Making a visible and sustainable improvement to the environment of the Borough through a clean, high quality, safe and accessible public realm, underpinned by a robust approach to enforcement
- Providing a ladder of opportunity for all our residents, including access to decent affordable homes, training opportunities and jobs
- Ensuring that our neighbourhoods are attractive, sustainable and balanced communities, whose views influence the nature of the services we deliver
- Realising opportunities for residents presented by the Olympics, the East London Line Extension, City fringe and other developments, in terms of the physical and economic regeneration of the Borough.
- Using both our Local Development Framework and our Regeneration Strategy, expressions of our Community Strategy and Local Area Agreement, to guide our service delivery
- Achieving a real internal cultural change that puts our customers and service users at the heart of the service, empowers our staff to make change for the better through our “one council” approach and the efficient, effective use of technology to achieve clear efficiency and value for money
- Underpinning delivery through the effective use of partnerships both within Team Hackney and in the wider sub-region and region, maximising benefits for residents
- To respond to climate change at a local level
What did we achieve in 2006/07?
- Successful creation of the new Directorate creating synergies across a wide range of high profile customer services
- Successfully introduced new ways of working, including transfer of services to customer focused Single Front Office, introduction of new technology and office moves
- Set up new mechanisms to work with Olympic Delivery Authority, and other Host boroughs to assess Olympic applications and legacy proposals
- Achieving crime reduction targets, with the best crime reduction in robberies in London
- Made sustainable improvements in the standard of street cleansing and increasing the choice of recycling alternatives to the community with the expansion of compulsory recycling
- New (low emission) waste fleet introduced, resulting in a low missed collection rate
- Stage 1 of Decent Housing Strategy complete. Highest funding allocation in London for 2006/08 for affordable housing, including a high level of 3 plus sized family accommodation
- Successful launch of Choice Based Letting Scheme
- Woodberry Down Regeneration granted Demonstration Project status by the DCLG
- Sustained and improved performance in planning with Planning Standards Authority status removed
- High profile successes in Trading Standards cases – Timberland case.
- Adoption of our Transport Strategy, the launch of the Staff Travel Plan and an award for best Cycling Borough in London
- Successful delivery of the Streetscene Capital Programme to improve the public realm and safety
What we plan to do next
Mayor’s Priority 1: Improving services and increasing opportunities for all, raising the life chances of the most disadvantaged
Projects
- Through joint working develop an Olympic Master Plan for Hackney Wick, maximising benefit for residents through for example transport infrastructure and legacy proposals
- To make Hackney a place where people want to live by planning a built environment and developing the local economy which supports sustainable and mixed communities by 2009. (Regeneration Strategy)
- To bring about local and borough wide benefits for the retail, housing, public realm, transport and creative economy by the extension of the East London Line by 2010. (Dalston Regeneration Project )
- To increase opportunities for local residents (notably social renting tenants) on moderate to average incomes to access sustainable affordable homes in Hackney that bridge the gap between market prices and social rents by 2012 (Affordable Housing Strategy)
- To provide a sustainable community of around 4,300 mixed tenure homes, together with the necessary education, health and community facilities in a highly landscaped environment by 2015 (Woodberry Down Estate)
- To bring all of Hackney’s 24,000 rented homes up to the Government ‘Decent Homes’ standard by 2010. (Decent Housing Strategy)
- Estate renewal programme: To deliver new and sustained mixed use communities
- To increase rehousing of overcrowded families
- To deliver the 2007/08 Streetscene Capital Programme to provide physical improvements to the boroughs public realm
- Reduce household waste sent to landfill by extending compulsory recycling to street based properties borough wide during 2007/08
- To implement Parking’s Quality Management Strategy to deliver service improvements
- To provide a joined-up, visible and uniformed presence on our streets and estates taking action on abandoned vehicles, fly tipping, graffiti and anti-social behaviour by April 2009. (Enforcement Strategy)
- To Implement the Crime and Disorder and Drug Misuse Strategy by 31 March 2008 to reduce levels of crime and drug misuse
Mayor’s Priority 2: Making sure the Council is high performing and efficient
Projects
- Phase 1 of the development of Millfields Waste Services Depot
- Development of programme of service efficiency and back office re-engineering projects
- Complete the restructuring of the Regeneration and Planning Division to ensure that our regeneration team is fit for purpose and supports the implementation of our Olympic programme and Regeneration Strategy
Page updated: 5 Sep 2007