{"id":410166,"date":"2025-09-09T10:14:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T10:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/410166\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T10:14:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T10:14:11","slug":"homes-england-not-needed-in-combined-authority-areas-says-liverpool-mayor-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/410166\/","title":{"rendered":"Homes England \u2018not needed\u2019 in combined authority areas, says Liverpool mayor | News"},"content":{"rendered":"

The mayor of the Liverpool City Region has suggested that Homes England\u2019s powers and spending should be devolved to combined authority areas.<\/p>\n

Speaking at a Housing Community Summit panel on Tuesday, Steve Rotheram said he had \u201cmade no secret of the fact that I believe that we don\u2019t need another body doing the similar sort of thing to what we are doing\u201d.<\/p>\n

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Asked whether this meant Homes England\u2019s role should be replaced by regional bodies, Rotheram accepted that the government\u2019s housing and regeneration agency continued to be needed.<\/p>\n

\u201cNot every area has a metro mayor, so they will need Homes England as the accountable body to try and get housing done in those areas,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201c[But] In those areas where you have a combined authority, I don\u2019t see that there\u2019s the need.\u201d<\/p>\n

It came a day after Homes England\u2019s chair, Pat Ritchie, revealed at the same two-day conference that the agency was in the process of creating an internally devolved structure.<\/a><\/p>\n

Ritchie said Homes England was recruiting regional chief executives to underpin a new model, which is \u201clikely\u201d to be divided across five regions, each with its own team and leader.<\/p>\n

On the panel with Rotheram, Akash Paun, programme director at the Institute for Government, said that he thought the government wanted to move towards devolving Homes England\u2019s affordable homes programme (AHP), but that \u201capparently it\u2019s not moving particularly fast on that\u201d.<\/p>\n

Currently, only the Greater London Authority has devolved control over the AHP.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can\u2019t imagine it\u2019s going to be fully devolved – I don\u2019t think anytime soon,\u201d said Paun.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201c[But] I can imagine they might try it in some of those leading established mayoral strategic authorities.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cGreater Manchester and West Midlands are always the trailblazers, but certainly Liverpool City Region and West Yorkshire are not far behind in terms of institutional maturity\u201d.<\/p>\n

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