Posted 26.05.17
Longhurst Group: Article link
Longhurst Group announced a new partnership that will help deliver 700 new homes a year and maintain its focus on providing comprehensive care and support services.
An agreement to merge with Peterborough-based, Axiom Housing Association, was formally signed off by shareholders and will see Axiom join the Group from 3 July 2017.
Axiom owns more than 2,300 homes across Peterborough, Cambridgeshire and Lincolnshire.
The partnership means that Longhurst Group, which currently comprises Longhurst & Havelok (L&H) Homes, Spire Homes, Friendship Care and Housing and Keystone, will be responsible for over 22,000 properties across almost 50 local authorities.
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Posted 17.05.17
Knightstone: Article link
Knightstone and the Devon and Cornwall housing association, DCH, announced that they are now in talks to create a new organisation.
The proposed new group would become the South West's largest housing association, with 35,000 properties providing homes for over 70,000 people.
The new organisation would have the capacity to develop over 15,000 new homes over the next ten years, making it one of the largest house builders in our region.
It would build homes across all tenures, with a focus on delivering homes for low market rent and low cost home ownership for people in housing need.
