Updated 17.04.14
Talks on Creating a New Joint Force for Housing in Staffordshire
The boards of Housing Plus and Stafford and Rural Homes are in talks about working together in a new group to benefit customers and the wider community.
The planned new group would be a much larger locally-based housing provider, managing more than 12,000 homes and employing in excess of 500 people.
Stafford and Rural Homes and Housing Plus are financially strong, high performing businesses that decided to look at a partnership of choice, building on existing successful collaboration.
By working together in a new group, both organisations would retain their respective roles as local landlords but would also be able to build more homes, strengthen services, be more efficient and deal with future challenges better than they could alone.
No decision will be made without both organisations consulting with customers, staff, partners and other stakeholders to assess the implications and potential benefits to existing and future residents and communities. This consultation is now underway.
