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Weaver Vale Housing Trust confirm new contractor for affordable homes in Winsford

|Date: 3 May, 2024

Weaver Vale Housing Trust confirm new contractor for affordable homes in Winsford

Weaver Vale Housing Trust has appointed a new contractor to restart work on affordable homes on the site ...

Weaver Vale Housing Trust has appointed a new contractor to restart work on affordable homes on the site of the old Greedy Pig pub located just off New Road, Winsford. Ten houses and 36 apartments wer ...

3 May, 2024
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JV North warns of housebuilding slowdown without funding certainty

|Date: 23 April, 2024

JV North warns of housebuilding slowdown without funding certainty

JV North is warning housebuilding will slow unless funding certainty is given beyond the current Affordab ...

JV North is warning housebuilding will slow unless funding certainty is given beyond the current Affordable Homes Programme end date. With less than two years left of the 2021/26 Affordable Homes Prog ...

23 April, 2024
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Housing association’s first off-gas new-build homes have “everything” customers want

|Date: 2 April, 2024

Housing association’s first off-gas new-build homes have “everything” customers want

Homes at a North East housing association’s first gas-free new-build development are receiving top marks ...

Homes at a North East housing association’s first gas-free new-build development are receiving top marks for both customer satisfaction and energy efficiency. Newlyweds Joel and Brooklyn Huntington ...

2 April, 2024
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Northstone and Torus reveal plans to deliver sustainable community of 100% affordable homes in Wigan

|Date: 22 January, 2024

Northstone and Torus reveal plans to deliver sustainable community of 100% affordable homes in Wigan

Wigan is set to get a much-needed affordable homes boost thanks to a new £22m deal between homebuilder No ...

Wigan is set to get a much-needed affordable homes boost thanks to a new £22m deal between homebuilder Northstone and the region’s largest affordable housing provider Torus. Plans for the 113-home dev ...

22 January, 2024
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Livv Homes breaks ground on first Warrington housing development

|Date: 9 January, 2024

Livv Homes breaks ground on first Warrington housing development

Construction work has commenced on Livv Homes’ first affordable housing scheme in Warrington, Cheshire. T ...

Construction work has commenced on Livv Homes’ first affordable housing scheme in Warrington, Cheshire. The £5.2m Parkside Place development on Wilderspool Causeway is set to support local people onto ...

9 January, 2024
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First of its kind grant funding approved for North Taunton estate regeneration project

|Date: 26 October, 2023

First of its kind grant funding approved for North Taunton estate regeneration project

Homes England has awarded a £5m grant from the Affordable Homes Programme to Somerset Council to support ...

Homes England has awarded a £5m grant from the Affordable Homes Programme to Somerset Council to support the North Taunton Woolaway Project. The grant allocation is the first of its kind, following th ...

26 October, 2023
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New homes transform derelict court site

|Date: 9 October, 2023

New homes transform derelict court site

Residents have moved into 18 new homes built on the site of a former magistrates’ court in County Durham. ...

Residents have moved into 18 new homes built on the site of a former magistrates’ court in County Durham. Housing association believe housing developed the two- and three-bed homes at Chambers Court, ...

9 October, 2023
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Let’s focus on more social rent to tackle the housing crisis

|Date: 12 September, 2023

Let’s focus on more social rent to tackle the housing crisis

Michael Gove’s reply of ‘30,000-a-year at least’ when asked for a figure by ITV’s Daniel Hewitt as to the ...

Michael Gove’s reply of ‘30,000-a-year at least’ when asked for a figure by ITV’s Daniel Hewitt as to the number of social rented homes he wants to see built, put down a marker which is welcomed. Here ...

12 September, 2023
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Work begins on Liverpool social housing regeneration scheme

|Date: 7 September, 2023

Work begins on Liverpool social housing regeneration scheme

National regeneration housebuilder Lovell Partnerships has started work at a new development site in Live ...

National regeneration housebuilder Lovell Partnerships has started work at a new development site in Liverpool, to deliver its first mixed-tenure affordable scheme with Cobalt Housing. Located on Ston ...

7 September, 2023
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Turbo-boost for estate regeneration with major change to the Affordable Homes Programme

|Date: 28 June, 2023

Turbo-boost for estate regeneration with major change to the Affordable Homes Programme

Homes England has announced that grant funding provided through the Government’s Affordable Homes Program ...

Homes England has announced that grant funding provided through the Government’s Affordable Homes Programme 2021-26 can now be used to fund replacement homes, alongside new affordable homes, as part o ...

28 June, 2023
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