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Two Castles Housing Association has welcomed a £20.5million award to fund hundreds of more affordable homes through the Spirit partnership.

Earlier this month, the Housing Corporation announced it was awarding £20.5million to Spirit to build 385 new affordable homes across the North.

As a result of the successful bid, rural specialists Two Castles Housing Association will be developing 65 properties throughout the North East and North West at an overall cost of £3.9million.

Grants for the following schemes were awarded as part of the Spirit bid and will be developed by Two Castles:

• Slaley village, Northumberland – 7 two and three bedroom homes (£470,799)
• Prince of Wales, Carlisle – 20 two bedroom apartments (£806,294)
• Southfield Road, Sedbergh – 3 three bedroom homes for shared ownership (£152,335)
• Staveley, near Kendal – 13 two and three bedroom homes (£868,332)
• Old Hall, Egremont – 10 two and three bedroom homes (£551,559)
• Whinfield Road, Windermere – 3 two bedroom apartments (£196,795)
• Broughton – four homes (£284,599)
• Brook Street, Troutbeck Bridge – 5 three bedroom homes (£536,526).

John Hay, Two Castles’ development director, said: “As part of Spirit, we are delighted with the award from the Housing Corporation, and we are pleased to be able to expand our development portfolio across the North.

“In addition to these awards we have a number of other schemes which are likely to be developed over the next two or three years at Carlisle and Kendal in the North West, and Gateshead in the North East.

“We also plan to fund the 14-unit bungalow scheme in Gateshead through alternative routes. Overall, our ambitious development programme will total more than 120 homes over the next few years.”

Spirit 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.
The partnership consists of Two Castles Housing Association, Three Rivers Housing Group, Tees Valley Housing Group, Erimus Housing, Housing Hartlepool and Coast & Country Housing.

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