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March 17th 2008
NEW life is due to be breathed into the north of the country thanks
to a multi-million pound cash handout for new homes.
Housing associations that form the Spirit Partnership will soon
be pouring money into building new homes after being awarded more
than £27m from their regulator, the Housing Corporation.
The cash injection, handed out as part of the National Affordable
Homes Programme (NAHP) means that new money housing projects will
be developed in a wide geographic area spanning North Tyneside
to North Yorkshire and across the North West.
The money was applied for by the Spirit Partnership, a collaboration
of seven housing associations in the North of England which aim
to build better quality affordable homes more effectively and efficiently.
A total of 660 units will be built by the partnership, which comprises
Tees Valley Housing, Erimus Housing, Housing Hartlepool, Three
Rivers Housing Association, Two Castles Housing Association, Coast
and Country Housing and Derwentside Homes. The 660 homes have been
funded by the programme from 2008 until 2011.
Projects will include major regeneration schemes to rebalance
communities and provide new housing for residents, supported housing
for special need groups and rural housing in areas where affordability
is a major problem. The programme is a mix of homes for rent and
shared ownership to offer choice and flexibility to customers.
Alison Thain, Chief Executive of Tees Valley Housing, the lead
developer for Spirit, said on behalf of the partnership: “We
are delighted to receive this allocation, which will fund a range
of exciting and innovative schemes throughout the northern region
until 2011.
“All of the schemes approved will meet level 3 of the Code
for Sustainable Homes, which means they will be modern, energy
efficient and of the highest design quality.”
Martin Knowles, Chief Executive of Three Rivers Housing Association
said, “The new programme will see the development of much
needed quality, affordable homes which will be energy efficient
and will help to address the current issue of fuel poverty which
is a priority in the north and one that the Government is trying
to tackle nationally.”
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