This afternoon, Homes for the North is hosting a regeneration roundtable in Parliament, chaired by Andrew Cooper MP, bringing together senior leaders from housing, government, and development to explore one central question: How do we make regeneration a core pillar of national housing strategy?
The timing couldn’t be more urgent, and the opportunity couldn’t be greater. To inform the conversation, we’re launching our new guide:
Driving Growth and Regeneration in the North of England
This guide draws on a decade of real delivery by our members and detailed analysis from Savills. It offers a blueprint for how regeneration can:
- Unlock up to 305,000 additional homes, including 144,000 on land already owned by housing associations
- Support net zero goals, reducing emissions and boosting energy efficiency
- Drive economic renewal, increase local productivity, and improve public health
- Rebuild community trust, with early engagement and long-term partnerships at the heart
It also sets out clear policy recommendations:
- Reforming the Affordable Homes Programme to support regeneration, not just new supply
- Combining retrofit, demolition, and new build into flexible funding packages
- Aligning local leadership with national agencies to scale delivery
From Sunderland to Preston, Halifax to Liverpool, regeneration is already happening. Now is the time to scale that success.
We’re proud to bring together housing associations, developers, civil servants, local leaders and MPs today to ask: what will it take to embed regeneration into the DNA of housing policy?
