Social Housing Review

The key priorities include:
• 1,500 new social homes each year
through annual capital budget of
£100m
• Sites for new homes supported
through ambitious targets for use of
surplus public land
• High quality care and support
through 10% increase in Supporting
People budget
• Independent Housing Regulator to
assure tenants, government and
sector investors
• Step-change in delivery of shared
housing
Indeed Northern Ireland’s major housing
associations are currently taking many new
build and refurbishment schemes through
early planning, to tender and on site start
stages.
The associations also invite contractors to
enter into contracts for site provision, design
and build of housing schemes, typically
requiring more than 10 units per site. They
enter into a framework with developers to
provide sites suitable for social housing and
purchase the scheme on completion.
Only last month it was announced that up to
300 new social homes are to be built across
Northern Ireland over the next three years
by Ballymoney-based Triangle Housing
Association who will provide around 100 of
the buildings this year and the rest the
following years. Ulster Bank is lending £7
million to the major programme.
association would be responsible for
managing 12,000 homes.
In this report Construction Information
Services (CIS) has identified some projects
which are currently at early pre planning
discussion and notification stages, those
which have progressed to full plans
submission, those approved at planning, out
to tender, contract awarded, those which
have started on site and finally those which
are due for completion within the next 6-12
months.
The main players include Clanmil, Choice,
Apex, Helm, Fold, Triangle, Habinteg,
Connswater and Ark Housing Associations.
NI Social Housing Report
Contents
Introduction ............................ Page 2
Analysis ........................................... 4
Project Contents .............................. 5
Social Housing Projects .................... 9
Housing Association Index ........... 143
County Index ............................... 147
It has also just been announced that
Northern Ireland's largest housing
association is to be created with the merger
of Fold and Helm Housing Associations. The
deal is subject to final approval and to be
completed by early 2017. The new
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