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Affordable housing specialist AJC Group starts construction on £23m Dorchester Brewery scheme

|Date: 7 March, 2023

Affordable housing specialist AJC Group starts construction on £23m Dorchester Brewery scheme

Affordable housing specialist AJC Group has commenced construction on a £23m residential development with ...

Affordable housing specialist AJC Group has commenced construction on a £23m residential development within Dorchester’s Brewery Square complex in Dorset. The community-focused brownfield regeneration ...

7 March, 2023
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Sector responds to Queen’s Speech

|Date: 10 May, 2022

Sector responds to Queen’s Speech

Key features of the Queen’s Speech included a Levelling up and Regeneration Bill intended to support loca ...

Key features of the Queen’s Speech included a Levelling up and Regeneration Bill intended to support local growth to empower local leaders to regenerate areas, an Energy Security Bill to support the t ...

10 May, 2022
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Sector responds to Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s Autumn Budget announcement

|Date: 28 October, 2021

Sector responds to Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s Autumn Budget announcement

Chancellor Rishi Sunak unveiled his Autumn Budget yesterday, which included £24bn for housing and £5bn to ...

Chancellor Rishi Sunak unveiled his Autumn Budget yesterday, which included £24bn for housing and £5bn to remove unsafe cladding, as well as more money for education and the construction of 40 new hos ...

28 October, 2021
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Aster Group builds over 1,000 homes in a year

|Date: 2 June, 2020

Aster Group builds over 1,000 homes in a year

Housing association Aster Group has built more than 1,000 homes in 12 months for the second year running, ...

Housing association Aster Group has built more than 1,000 homes in 12 months for the second year running, giving almost 3,000 people access to new affordable housing. The Group invested over £210m and ...

2 June, 2020
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Fix the UK’s housing crisis by putting shared ownership at the heart of housing policy

|Date: 18 November, 2019

Fix the UK’s housing crisis by putting shared ownership at the heart of housing policy

Housing association Aster Group has called on political parties to work together fix Britain’s housing ma ...

Housing association Aster Group has called on political parties to work together fix Britain’s housing market and put shared ownership at the centre of their general election manifestos. The group, wh ...

18 November, 2019
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Aster Group on track to double shared ownership portfolio in next five years

|Date: 26 September, 2019

Aster Group on track to double shared ownership portfolio in next five years

Housing association Aster Group has revealed that it plans to build 2,800 new shared ownership homes over ...

Housing association Aster Group has revealed that it plans to build 2,800 new shared ownership homes over the next five years – boosting its shared ownership portfolio to over 5,000 by 2024. The annou ...

26 September, 2019
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MHCLG launches new consultation on shared ownership

|Date: 28 August, 2019

MHCLG launches new consultation on shared ownership

Robert Jenrick, Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, unveils plans for a new ...

Robert Jenrick, Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, unveils plans for a new model of shared ownership designed to get more people onto the housing ladder. A package of me ...

28 August, 2019
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Aster to bring forward £10m affordable housing development in Hampshire

|Date: 9 July, 2019

Aster to bring forward £10m affordable housing development in Hampshire

Housing association Aster Group has secured planning permission to deliver a £10m development in Tadley, ...

Housing association Aster Group has secured planning permission to deliver a £10m development in Tadley, Hampshire. The homes at the scheme will all be offered as affordable tenures — over and above a ...

9 July, 2019
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Aster Group | Ensuring we provide the right housing options is essential

|Date: 2 July, 2019

Aster Group | Ensuring we provide the right housing options is essential

Bjorn Howard, Group CEO of Aster Group believes “the tools and delivery methods we need to solve the hous ...

Bjorn Howard, Group CEO of Aster Group believes “the tools and delivery methods we need to solve the housing crisis are already in place”, however government and the housing sector must ensure that th ...

2 July, 2019
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Sector welcomes Affordable Homes Guarantee Scheme but calls for new longer-term funding deal

|Date: 14 March, 2019

Sector welcomes Affordable Homes Guarantee Scheme but calls for new longer-term funding deal

The £3bn Affordable Homes Guarantee Scheme is welcome, however there are calls for a new longer-term ‘inf ...

The £3bn Affordable Homes Guarantee Scheme is welcome, however there are calls for a new longer-term ‘infrastructure style’ funding model to be introduced for affordable housing to address the housing ...

14 March, 2019
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