Tēnā koe Dingleberry

 

Thank you for your email dated 21/10/2021 requesting information about the
Strategic Housing Investment Plan 2017-2027.

 

Our team will manage your request under the Local Government Official
Information and Meetings Act 1987 which requires us to provide a decision
as soon as possible, but no later than 19/11/2021, being 20 working days
of receipt.

 

The reference number for your request is IRC-2510.

 

Please contact us if you have any further questions.

 

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-----Original Message-----
From: G Dingleberry <[FOI #17294 email]>
Sent: Thursday, 21 October 2021 1:44 pm
To: BUS: Assurance <[email address]>
Subject: Official Information request - Request for progress on the
Strategic Housing Investment Plan 2017-2027

 

Dear Wellington City Council,

 

How many social and affordable homes have been delivered to date as part
of the Strategic Housing Investment Plan 2017-2027?

 

How many properties have been sold as part of the Portfolio Alignment
strategy? (see Attachment 3 in the Strategic Housing Investment Plan
2017-2027, City Strategy Committee, 2 March, 2017).

 

Please provide all bi-annual reports to Council as set out in the
monitoring and reporting framework (see Attachment 3 in the Strategic
Housing Investment Plan 2017-2027, City Strategy Committee, 2 March,
2017).

 

Please provide all costs, expenditure and funding sources associated with
the implementation of the Strategic Housing Investment Plan since 2 March
2017.

 

Yours faithfully,

 

G Dingleberry

 

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Dear G. Dingleberry,

Thank you for your request made under the Local Government Official
Information and Meetings Act 1987 (the Act), and received by the Council
on 21 October 2021. In your email you requested the following information:

o How many social and affordable homes have been delivered to date as
part of the Strategic Housing Investment Plan 2017-2027?
o How many properties have been sold as part of the Portfolio Alignment
strategy? (see Attachment 3 in the Strategic Housing Investment Plan
2017-2027, City Strategy Committee, 2 March, 2017).
o Please provide all bi-annual reports to Council as set out in the
monitoring and reporting framework (see Attachment 3 in the Strategic
Housing Investment Plan 2017-2027, City Strategy Committee, 2 March,
2017).
o Please provide all costs, expenditure and funding sources associated
with the implementation of the Strategic Housing Investment Plan since
2 March 2017.

 

Given the scope of your request, information is still being collated.

 

The Act requires that we advise you of our decision on your request no
later than 20 working days after the day we received your request.
Unfortunately, it will not be possible to meet that time limit and we are
therefore writing to notify you of an extension of the time to make our
decision to 3 December 2021.

 

This extension is necessary because consultations necessary to make a
decision on your request are such that a proper response cannot reasonably
be made within the original time limit.

 

Right of review

You have the right to seek an investigation and review by the Ombudsman of
this decision. Further information is available on the Ombudsman website,
[1]www.ombudsman.parliament.nz.

 

Thank you again for your request, if you have any question please feel
free to contact me.

 

Kind regards,

Ian

 

Ian Hunter
Senior Advisor | Official Information Team | Wellington City Council
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-----Original Message-----
From: G Dingleberry <[FOI #17294 email]>
Sent: Thursday, 21 October 2021 1:44 pm
To: BUS: Assurance <[email address]>
Subject: Official Information request - Request for progress on the
Strategic Housing Investment Plan 2017-2027

 

Dear Wellington City Council,

 

How many social and affordable homes have been delivered to date as part
of the Strategic Housing Investment Plan 2017-2027?

 

How many properties have been sold as part of the Portfolio Alignment
strategy? (see Attachment 3 in the Strategic Housing Investment Plan
2017-2027, City Strategy Committee, 2 March, 2017).

 

Please provide all bi-annual reports to Council as set out in the
monitoring and reporting framework (see Attachment 3 in the Strategic
Housing Investment Plan 2017-2027, City Strategy Committee, 2 March,
2017).

 

Please provide all costs, expenditure and funding sources associated with
the implementation of the Strategic Housing Investment Plan since 2 March
2017.

 

Yours faithfully,

 

G Dingleberry

 

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Dear G. Dingleberry,

 

Further to the email dated 19 November 2021 from my colleague Ian Hunter,
I am able to respond formally on his behalf  to your request for
information relating to the Strategic Housing Investment Plan.

 

Thank you for your patience whilst your request has been progressed.

 

As you asked a number of questions I will address these in the order of
your original email.

 

1) How many social and affordable homes have been delivered to date as
part of the Strategic Housing Investment Plan 2017-2027? 

 

Arlington 1 & 3: 300 units. Following public consultation this site was
leased to the Crown and the site is currently being redeveloped.
Additional information is available on the Council’s website and can be
accessed via the following link:

 

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Te Māra apartments: 104 units. This redeveloped site was completed in 2018
with the site previously containing 57 apartments that were not to a
modern standard. Again, further information is available on the Council’s
website and can be accessed via the following link:
[4]https://wellington.govt.nz/news-and-even...

 

In addition; a further 9 family homes are being developed at Harrison
Street, Brooklyn. Further information is available via the following link:
[5]https://wellington.govt.nz/your-council/...

 

2) How many properties have been sold as part of the Portfolio Alignment
strategy? (see Attachment 3 in the Strategic Housing Investment Plan
2017-2027, City Strategy Committee, 2 March, 2017). 

I can advise 3 properties have been sold as part of the Portfolio
Alignment Strategy.

 

 

3) Please provide all bi-annual reports to Council as set out in the
monitoring and reporting framework (see Attachment 3 in the Strategic
Housing Investment Plan 2017-2027, City Strategy Committee, 2 March,
2017). 
 
Please note: During the first Covid-19 lockdown in 2020 the SHIP update
planned for April was pushed back to September to allow more urgent
matters to be discussed by Council. 
 
City Strategy Committee 

[6]Thursday 7 December 2017 (Publicly excluded) 
 
[7]Thursday 23 August 2018 Housing Development Update (Publicly excluded) 

 

[8]Thursday 6 December 2018 (Publicly excluded) 

 

[9]Thursday 21 March 2019 (Arlington Redevelopment Update) 

 

[10]Thursday 20 June 2019 City Housing Update 

 

Council 

[11]Thursday 12 December 2018 (Publicly excluded) 
 
[12]Thursday 18 April 2019 (Arlington Redevelopment Project) 

 
Strategy & Policy Committee 
[13]Thursday 10 September 2020  (Attachments publicly excluded) 
 
Council 

[14]Wednesday 30 September 2020 (Publicly excluded) 

 
Social, Cultural and Economic Committee 
[15]Wednesday 2 June 2021 (Housing Action Plan and Affordable Housing
Supply and Development papers) 
 

4) Please provide all costs, expenditure and funding sources associated
with the implementation of the Strategic Housing Investment Plan since 2
March 2017. 

 
The Strategic Housing Investment Plan is made up of three large programmes
of work relating to the assessment of underperforming assets, the
investigation of potential options for these assets and the upgrade of the
Council’s social housing portfolio. Since work began on this plan in
2017, in addition to the work carried out directly but Council
officers, each of these programmes has involved a large number
of contractors, service providers and central government partner
agencies.  

 

The below table summarises the costs and expenditure for City Housing for
the period requested. It summarises the costs and expenditure for the four
work programmes undertaken by City Housing that form its part of the
Strategic Housing Investment Plan.

 

 

 

These costs and expenditure were funded directly from the cash reserves of
the business unit, which is ring fenced under the 2008 Deed of Grant
signed by the Crown and WCC.  

 

We also note that all Crown funding associated with the Deed of Grant was
received prior to 2 March 2017, and the above expenditure includes money
spent by WCC to complete the $42m Arlington Site 2 development (also known
as the Te Māra complex) above the Crown funding received. There are also
building & infrastructure costs associated with the HUP1 project as well
as salaries associated with the planning of the second phase of the
Housing Upgrade Programme funded directly by the business unit.

Whilst we have been able to compile the figures relating to the Council’s
City Housing business unit, providing figures for the wider programme is
considerably more difficult as the information is not held in any easily
retrievable format.

 

In order to provide the information as requested, officers would be
required to search a large number of separate databases and paper records
located in a number of internal teams.

 

If you are able to refine your request we may be better able to assist you
in providing the information you require.

 

If you are unable to refine your request and wish to pursue your original
request, the Council will scope the estimated amount of officer time
likely to be required and will provide an estimate of the costs chargeable
for the retrieval and collation of the information. Charges are made in
line with the Ministry of Justice Charging Guidelines: [16]Charging
guidelines for OIA requests | New Zealand Ministry of Justice

If you could advise how you would like to proceed with question four it
would be much appreciated.

 

Kind regards,

 

Chris Brown | He/Him

Official Information | Wellington City Council
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