Development services of real estate

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Swansea Council, as part of its More Homes Strategy, is seeking a partner(s) to help deliver a programme of housing development across approximately 30 “Housing Revenue Account” (HRA) sites. The Council want to engage with potential partners to assess interest in bringing forward the pipeline schemes to: — increase the supply of affordable housing within Swansea, — deliver a range of tenures that will respond to identified housing need, — deliver sustainable, energy efficient homes and achieve good space standards, — enable some difficult to develop sites with a low or negative value to be developed by cross-subsidising and developing with other sites, — deliver wider benefits to communities and open spaces surrounding development sites, — create jobs and local investment and encourage the use of local labour and set up training initiatives. The HRA sites identified for development in partnership are all within the Council’s own land supply. Swansea Council, as part of its More Homes Strategy, is seeking a partner(s) to help deliver a programme of housing development across approximately 30 ‘Housing Revenue Account’ (HRA) sites. The Council want to engage with potential partners to assess interest in bringing forward the pipeline schemes. Engagement with potential partners via this PIN will inform a decision about how to take forward these opportunities. Priority development sites: The Council has already carried out some soft market testing and some initial site assessments, and has a selected a group of sites that it would like to prioritise for development. These are split into short term and medium term phases. Short term — 1-4 years: — BM025 — Ty Draw Road/Llanerch Road (55 dwellings), — CO018 — Penrhos Place (60 dwellings), — GW023 — Scurlage Monksland (25 dwellings), — PD033 — Skomer Place/Westdale Road (28 dwellings), — PD024 — Milford Way (40 dwellings), — PD032 — Milford Way — Site B (54 dwellings). Medium term 4-8 years: — BM020 — Brokesby Road South (40 + dwellings), — CL006/CL007 — Land at Graigola Road (25 dwellings), — CL008 — Tanycoed Road (20 dwellings). These short term sites have the potential to provide around 347 dwellings (of which approximately 61 would be affordable assuming all are LDP policy compliant). The council would like to explore the potential to maximise the affordable housing on the sites to around 40 % across the sites. Further HRA sites: The Council would also like to seek views on all the HRA sites currently identified as being suitable for possible future development. The Council has identified 30 potential development sites (including the priority sites above) to be included within the exercise. The sites, which total a gross site area of 64,03 hectares (158,15 acres), are cleared of buildings and are all held on a freehold basis. They are located within nine Wards across Swansea.