HCA funding crisis
May 25th, 2010
This wonderful news which in any other circumstance would be bad news about housing, means that ill thought out and badly planned schemes like Wornington Green redevelopment, and many schemes of poor design funded hurredly under Kickstart, despite reservations of CABE, are likely to have their funding stopped or entirely withdrawn. Look at the row earlier this year:-
A row over the quality of publicly-funded homes rescued by the government’s £1bn Kickstart scheme has broken out between the two public bodies involved.
Documents obtained by Building under the Freedom of Information Act reveal a dispute between Richard Simmons, the chief executive of Cabe, and Sir Bob Kerslake, his opposite number at the Homes and the Communities Agency (HCA), over the scheme design assessments carried out by Cabe for the HCA.
The HCA was criticised in December after it emerged that more than half the homes in the Kickstart programme failed the government’s own design test. Of 136 developments, more than half achieved less than 10 out of 20 against the Building for Life design criteria.