Asked by: Damian Green (Conservative - Ashford)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether he plans to update the National Planning Policy Framework to (a) reflect the affordability of almshouses and (b) include them in the definition of affordable housing.
Answered by Rachel Maclean
Where almshouse organisations are registered with the Regulator of Social Housing and are letting homes at Social or Affordable Rent, or providing low-cost home ownership through shared ownership schemes, those homes are likely to fall within the definition of affordable housing in the National Planning Policy Framework.
As part of the National Planning Policy Framework consultation between 22 December 2022 and 2 March 2023, we sought views on how we can help bring forward more community-led housing, including almshouses. We will be publishing a response to that consultation in due course.
Asked by: Damian Green (Conservative - Ashford)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether she is taking steps to help ensure that almshouse charities are regulated on a basis appropriate to small charities.
Answered by Stuart Andrew - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Culture, Media and Sport)
Both the Charity Commission and the Regulator of Social Housing have regulatory roles in relation to almshouse charities that are also registered providers of social housing.
Under charity law, the regulatory requirements that apply to charities are proportionate, with smaller charities subject to fewer or less detailed regulatory and transparency requirements. This includes almshouse charities.
Registration with the Regulator of Social Housing is voluntary for almshouse charities, and a number of almshouses do choose to register. Where almshouses are registered with the Regulator of Social Housing, they are required to meet the Regulator’s standards.
Apr. 13 2023
Source Page: Social housing lettings in England, April 2021 to March 2022Found: Private Registered Provider (PRP) 13 6 0 7 0 0 0 2017/18 PENN AND WIDOW SMITH ALMSHOUSES Private Registered
Apr. 06 2023
Source Page: RSH Board minutes 2023Found: Interest 02/02/23 RH advised that he has been appointed as a board member of the Buckingham Almshouses
86: King Edward VII Institute 87: Lamberhurst War Memorial Hall 88: Sunnyside Hall Rusthall 89: Langton Green Village Hall 90: The Red House 91: Charles Amherst Almshouses 92: @1stSLscouts 93: Hawkhurst Community Trust 94: King Charles The Martyr Church Hall @KCM_Church
40: Folly Wildlife Rescue 41: @WestKentRadio 42: CJ Gallard's Almshouses 43: @baby_umbrella 44: Toc H High Brooms 45: St Paul’s Church Rusthall 46: Dunk’s Almshouses 47: @changegrowlive 48: @Taysbucket
Feb. 14 2023
Source Page: Design Code LibraryFound: The Bathursts in particular built a number of almshouses, shops and other buildings in a consciously
Oral Evidence Feb. 06 2023
Committee: Levelling Up, Housing and Communities Committee (Department: Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities)Found: They are areas like small village almshouses and things like that.
Dec. 20 2022
Source Page: The Geffrye Museum Trust Annual Report and Accounts 2021 to 2022Found: The Almshouses were sold in 1910 to the London County Council (LCC), and converted into the Geffrye
Dec. 13 2022
Source Page: English Housing Survey 2020 to 2021: headline reportFound: 20, social housing rents will be reduced by 1% a year, for 4 years except from supported housing, almshouses