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Great Places’ development programme continues to bring much-needed affordable housing to our regions.
The country continues to face a desperate shortage of homes. According to recent research by Shelter, the UK needs to build at least 340,000 homes per year – and of that at least 150,000 good quality affordable homes. Our commitment to help tackle this shortage through our affordable development programme remains a key cornerstone for Great Places and it has been a busy few months for our Development Team, with a range of new sites commencing across our regions.
In Sheffield, our London Road development will transform a derelict former petrol station site into 51 much-needed affordable homes to rent close to Sheffield city centre. Across the Pennines, we’ve started our Grosvenor Street development in Tameside that reinforces our ongoing commitment to providing vital supported housing where needed. It will provide 17 self-contained apartments with 24 hour on-site care allowing customers to remain close to friends and family in accommodation which meets their support needs. Grosvenor Street is just one of our current supported housing schemes on site alongside the former Stalybridge Police station in Tameside, and two schemes in Salford.
The team also recently hosted a visit from Councillor Clare Cummins, Cabinet Member for Housing Services at Bury Council, at our former East Lancashire Paper Mill site in Radcliffe set to be transformed by Terra Nova, our in-house construction company, into 27 affordable homes to rent.
More recently, work is also under way on a flagship development of 160 new affordable homes on Worrall Street and 90 homes at our Hilltop development both within Salford. The Worrall Street site, located close to the Manchester Ship Canal, will form part of the Ordsall Waterfront regeneration corridor which stretches from Salford Quays to Regent Road.
The site was formerly a Dye Works until the 1960s when warehouse buildings occupied the site for storage and transportation of goods. The buildings on site are set to make way for the new scheme; a mix of two and three-bed townhouses and one to three-bedroom apartments available for Shared Ownership and Rent to Buy. The Hilltop site will provide a mixed tenure community of 90 homes available for rent and shared ownership; major improvements to the local community cricket club are being delivered alongside the housing.
Despite recent challenges of rising costs, we have 1,800 homes in build at present with new homes being handed over to our customers at an average of over 55 each month. With a strong pipeline of opportunities to deliver more new affordable homes across our regions we’re in a good position to achieve our 10-year ambition of delivering 11,000 new homes by the end of the decade.