Partnership formed to boost house construction in the West Midlands
The West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA) and Homes England, the government’s housing and regeneration agency, have unveiled a new plan to boost house construction in the region.
Both have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to establish the West Midlands Strategic Place Partnership (SPP), aiming to revitalise vacant brownfield areas into new communities.
This collaboration stems from the Deeper Devolution Deal inked by the WMCA and the government last year, allocating up to £400m for affordable housing investment.
The SPP will see both entities team up to tackle brownfield sites and ensure the delivery of high-quality, affordable, and future-ready homes.
Andy Street, Mayor of the West Midlands, and chair of the WMCA said: “Developing homes and creating new communities on brownfield land has been one of the region’s real success stories of recent years.
“This partnership with Homes England will see us work closely together to turbo-charge house building, unlocking some of our biggest brownfield sites for new homes that are energy efficient and genuinely affordable. Almost 33% of all the new homes built to date with WMCA investments have been affordable and the West Midlands is the only region that remains on track to meet its housing targets of 215,000 new homes by 2031.
“This partnership with Homes England, backed by the hundreds of millions of pounds we have secured for brownfield regeneration through our Deeper Devolution Deal, will further accelerate that success and see yet more homes constructed, more communities transformed, and the quality of life improved for people right across our region.”
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