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The development of eight 2-bedroom bungalows at West Rainton in County Durham has been completed by Three Rivers Housing Group. The scheme is the first of two phases which have been developed within this local County Durham village. The homes have been designed to ‘Lifetime Homes Standards’ to achieve an ‘Eco-homes’ rating of very good. This is equivalent to a 30% reduction in annual CO2 emissions per home and provides tenants with the opportunity to live in well designed and comfortable homes which will cost less to heat up in the winter and will stay cooler when the weather is hotter in the summer. Three Rivers’ aim is to continually strive to provide more affordable homes in the North East for its customers. This scheme demonstrates high quality production whilst maximising efficiencies in production. Each home has been built using the Beco Wallform System to help reduce construction time which reduces preliminary costs such as site set-up and supervision costs. David Brown, Development and Regeneration Manager at Three Rivers said, “The whole project design team, including contractor CGR Ecohomes and Robin Miller of Beco Wallform, have worked well together to bring the scheme about, on what is a very restrictive site and with tight budgetary constraints. Such is our confidence in the team and the product that we have already started working on the next two proposed scheme designs.” Cllr. Les Thomson, Portfolio Holder for Housing at Durham City Council, said; “Providing affordable homes in appropriate areas throughout the District is one of the Council’s priorities. Ensuring those homes are energy efficient with low running costs is a necessity for any Social Housing Developer who seeks to work in partnership with the City Council. We are delighted that Three Rivers has risen to the challenge so quickly and look forward to working on other developments throughout the District.” Julie Jacques, Head of Investment in the North East from The Housing Corporation said, “I am delighted that the Housing Corporation has been able to work in partnership with Three Rivers Housing Association to enable the development of these new bungalows at West Rainton. Three Rivers have used an innovative construction method which has delivered high quality, environmentally friendly housing, and I am very pleased that we will also be supporting the second phase of the development. I hope that the people who live here will be very comfortable and happy in their new homes.” The Housing Corporation awarded £640,000 to the Spirit partnership towards the total project costs. Three Rivers Housing Group is a key member of the Spirit Partnership which also consists of Two Castles Housing Association, Tees Valley Housing Group, Erimus Housing, Housing Hartlepool and Coast & Country Housing. The Spirit partnership was set up last year to raise the level of social housing standards by providing more and better quality homes at less cost to the public purse. Phase 2 at West Rainton will consist of a further 10 units for 34 people and commenced on site at the beginning of December. |
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