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Golden Triangle Partnership
What is it?
The Housing Corporation and the Government Office for Yorkshire and the Humber provide an advisory role to the Partnership.
Why the Golden Triangle?
During the past few years, it has become more and more difficult to meet housing demand in the area. For an increasing number of first time buyers and people on low incomes it has become almost impossible to buy their own home in the Golden Triangle due to the prohibitive cost of property. The Golden Triangle Partnership want to take action that will remove these obstacles.
Vision of the Partnership
The vision of the Partnership is to work across traditional administrative boundaries to achieve affordable housing solutions in high-value areas of North and West Yorkshire. The overall aim of the partnership is to increase the availability of affordable housing within sustainable communities in the Golden Triangle area.
How?
The Partnership has bid successfully for £0.5m 'transformational' funding for 2005/06. This is the first year of a five-year project to deliver innovative and longer-term solutions to the affordable housing shortage within the Golden Triangle. In all, grant funding totalling £7.5m (with £7.5m match funding) is available.
In 2004/05, the Partnership was successful in securing funding as part of the Housing Corporation's Innovation and Good Practice Grant, to look at ways of streamlining and adopting good practice in relation to negotiating affordable housing as part of planning obligations.