Hi4em - Housing Intelligence for the East Midlands - is a project funded by the Regional Housing Group of the East Midlands Regional Assembly and supported by G.O.E.M. - Government Office East Midlands. We aim to source, display and map a wide range of data relating to private sector housing conditions in the region. The data provided will support Local Authorities working to meet the Government's target of ensuring that 70% of vulnerable households, in their own home or privately rented accommodation, are living in decent homes by 2010.
Hi4em event - 9th and 10th June 2008
Housing Market event - 5 March 2008
A Review of Demand for Disabled Facilities Grants in the East Midlands
Progress to date - 1 July 2008
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Hi4em GIS Phase 2 launched at Hi4em event
Phase 2 of the Hi4em GIS was launched with a demonstration of the system's full functionality at the Hi4em event on 9th and 10th June. Access to the GIS is via the GIS terms and conditions page - see the link at the bottom of this page. Local authorities in the East Midlands can logon to the GIS after agreeing to the terms and conditions.
If you missed the briefing session a short guide to making a map is available in the document library - a more in depth document will be available soon. If you need further advice, walk-throughs or training please contact us.
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GIS terms and conditions - registered users need to agree to these to navigate to the GIS login screen
Almost 100 people from across the East Midlands attended our two day event to:
- Update you on the Hi4em IT and data procurement programmes
- Update you on the Finance and Governance consultation and options
- Launch phase 2 of the Hi4em GIS - this will be a briefing presentation with an opportunity over lunch to make your own map
- Discuss how Hi4em can help with NI 187
- Present the findings of the Review of Demand for Disabled Facilities Grants
- Discuss the options for equity release and loans for repairs and adaptations
The presentations delivered at the event are available below:
There was also a presentation from Phil Fasham of Corby Borough Council who is researching the linkages between loans, grants and health. This will be available here in due course.
Nottingham commission consortium approach research
During the course of the Loans and Equity Release session it was noted that Nottingham have commissioned research into the viability and the interest that is present in the East Midlands for a consortium approach. The consultant, Doug Wright, has previously carried out similar research for a consortium of South East London authorities and a condensed version of his report is available to download - South East London Equity Release condensed version 134kb 
For further information please contact John Cockroft at Nottingham City Council.
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The presentations from the review of the Hometrack Pilot Study session of the Housing Market Event are available as PDFs below. A series of case studies resulting from the pilot study are being prepared and will be published here once they are available. Savills presentation from the review of Strategic Housing Market Assessments session is also available.
Jim Grundy, G.O.E.M. 142K
David George, Hi4em 2.13MB
Dan Lucas, Nottingham City Council 77K
Rupert Mackay, Hometrack 465K
Review of practice in development and use of sub-regional Strategic Housing Market Assessments in the East Midlands -
David Harrison, Savills 2.54MB
Foundations - the national co-ordinating body for Home Improvement Agencies - has undertaken a review of existing and potential future demand for Disabled Facilities Grant. This includes an analysis of likely latent demand of the East Midlands population for both major and minor adaptations and to assist with preparing for the future planning of resources within the region. Hi4em have assisted the review by mapping the data obtained.
Malcolm Ramsey presented the findings of the review at the Hi4em event on 9th June - see above.
Full details of the review
Download or view the Package of Changes to Modernise the Disabled Facilities Grant Programme published by CLG in February 2008.
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Reports, charts and maps added so far include data from these sources:
- CACI Community InSights - Data and maps are now available for the region by local authority
- Disabled Facilities Grants. Data supplied by 28 local authorities as part of the research into demand for DFGs has been mapped and is available. Late additions to the data mean that county and regional maps are not displaying all the data that has been supplied.
- Warm Front Grants. Actual Warm Front grant data supplied by local authorities for 2005-06 and 2007-08. To date this has been mapped at regional level only.
- Local Authority Disabled Facilities Grants. Actual data from around half the region's local authorities giving the numbers of Disabled Facilities Grants in 2005-06. This is contributing to the review of demand for adaptations being carried out by Foundations.
- Local Authority decent homes activity. Actual data from local authorities giving the number of homes made decent to update the Hi4em survey model
- Building Research Establishment Stock Model. This is a model derived from the 2001 census and the 2001 results of the English House Condition Survey that uses house types and ages, location, and occupier patterns to assess the likely condition of properties
- Hi4em survey model. This takes the data from local authority house condition survey carried out since 2001 and distributes the results for the authority, or any sub-area reported on, using the BRE distribution patterns.
- Department of Work and Pensions benefits data - February 2006. Actual data from the DWP Information Directorate for February 2006 has been published. This gives the number of claimants of a range of income and disability related benefits and is the basis for identifying high concentrations of 'vulnerable households'.
- Department of Work and Pensions benefits data - February 2007. The latest data has been published by local authority regionally and for each county at lower super output area level, along with comparisons between 2006 and 2007 data.
- Index of Multiple Deprivation. As well as the full index for the East Midlands maps have been published contrasting the most and least deprived areas.
- Housing Strategy Statistical Appendices. Housing data collected annually from all local authorities including statistics on empty properties, council houses, improvements, decent homes, housing register, grants and grant expenditure and energy efficiency.
- Real Demand housing market indicators. Hometrack's Real Demand housing market indicators including: house price to incomes ratio - affordability, overall average current price, overall price change last year and average time to sell in weeks.
- Hard to heat homes. Data from the Energy Efficiency Partnership for Homes projecting the numbers of households without access to mains gas and dwellings built of a solid wall construction, without cavities. This data has been mapped for all counties by ward and lower super output area and all local authorities by ward, lower super output area and census output area.
In the coming months we plan to publish data indicative of where there is the greatest likelihood of poor housing conditions such as empty properties, council tax band A properties, crime and anti-social behaviour, low educational attainment, accidents in the home, respiratory conditions and house prices.
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The menu on the left of the page is related to the geographic area you are currently in. At present this relates to the project as a whole and the East Midlands generally. Clicking on 'Derbyshire', for example will bring up a sub-menu of the local authorities in Derbyshire and access to data and maps relating to the whole of Derbyshire. Then clicking on 'Erewash' will detail conditions and activity in Erewash.
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