Harbour Ambition
On 8th February 2021, Harbour Ambition held a short webinar presentation on a brief introduction to Community Led Housing. A very big thank you to Colin McDonald of Wessex Community Assets for working with Harbour Ambition to host an information session on Community Led Housing with some local contacts through SMILE Connect. You can check out this webinar on our Facebook Page. The file is too big to upload here. https://fb.watch/4ih9Hz1UnM/
Harbour Ambition is holding an internal visioning process to create conceptual designs based on current needs of the community. Charmaine brilliantly came up with the idea to run a Question A Day over a week. See our Facebook Page to be involved and share your thoughts on what Hamworthy and Poole Town needs.
On 27th January 2021, all founding Directors stepped down, and a new Board was elected by the Membership of 6th January 2021. Two of the founding Directors and one founding Member stood, alongside three other Members. See the Who We Are page for more details.
On Friday the 12 of June 2020, Harbour Ambition submitted its application to the FCA to form a Community Benefit Society. Harbour Ambition Ltd was incorporated on 13th July 2020.
Michael Hancock of Harbour Ambition makes a public statement following the publishing of a BCP Council Cabinet report on the potential future purchase of Poole Power Station site.
“Harbour Ambition applaud the proposal for BCP Council to purchase the former Power Station Site. In particular, the ambitions for affordable housing, exemplar sustainability innovation and creating a truly vibrant neighbourhood. We wish to highlight however, that the report does not include the option of a 3-way partnership between BCP Council, the Private Sector, and a Community Led Development Organisation. We have identified funding options to support an innovative and collaborative master planning and consent process, reducing the need for further Council funding. We would encourage the Council to add this to the list of options for further detailed consideration.”
The above is referenced at 13:20 in the video of the meeting.
Mark Howell – Portfolio Holder for Regeneration responds during an Overview & Scrutiny Meeting on May 18th at 6pm referanced the statement made by saying:
“Can I just recognise Mr Hancock’s statement that was read out at the start of the meeting. The report puts down two possible options in terms of development of the site. But certainly, I would love to see a community involvement as well. This should be about creating a community, and therefore if we can work with community partners that would be great.”
The above is referenced at 39:55 in the video of the meeting.
Harbour Ambition has secured £4,000 from Community Led Homes a partnership between the Confederation of Co-operative housing, Locality, the National Community Land Trust Network and UK Cohousing.
The Community Led Homes Start Up Support Programme aims to help groups of local people to develop their own community led housing solutions. Funded by the Community Housing Fund from the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG). More information can be found at www.communityledhomes.org.uk/get-funding
The start-up funding has been given to us to support our early development as we seek to build momentum and engage with the community about the development of Community Led Housing in the Regeneration area of Poole.