Homes England has revealed the 35 new strategic partners it is helping through the Affordable Homes Programme.
These strategic partners include a broader range of organisations than previous partners, with four for-profit providers, including one developer, as well as a number of housing associations.
Together, Homes England are hoping they will deliver nearly 90,000 affordable homes.
Peter Denton, Chief Executive Officer at Homes England, said: “These strategic partnerships give our new partners the funding, flexibility, and confidence they need to build much needed affordable homes across the country, it also establishes a large network of organisations looking to share their skills and capabilities to expand the affordable housing sector and transform communities.
“By forming strategic partnerships with a wide range of public and private organisations, we are creating the conditions needed for institutional investment to catalyse affordable housing supply and in future give local authorities more of the tools they need to plan and act strategically, shaping their communities and building new homes.”
The partnerships are in full below, with some reaction from the providers.
| Organisation | Grant funding | Number of homes |
|---|---|---|
| Abri | £250m | 3,218 |
| Accent | £210.2m | 3,305 |
| Aster | £114m | 1,550 |
| Bromford | £239.9m | 4,000 |
| Clarion | £249.7m | 4,770 |
| Curo & Swan | £160.4m | 2,425 |
| EMH & Midland Heart | £171.7m | 3,551 |
| Flagship | £93m | 1,500 |
| Great Places | £240.8m | 4,920 |
| Greensquare Accord | £212.9m | 3,755 |
| Guinness & Stonewater | £250m | 4,180 |
| Hyde | £250m | 3,000 |
| Karbon | £131.5m | 2,200 |
| Legal & General | £125.5m | 2,121 |
| LiveWest | £123.6m | 2,550 |
| Longhurst & NCHA | £230m | 3,935 |
| McCarthy and Stone | £93.9m | 1,500 |
| Metropolitan Thames Valley | £62.6m | 1,500 |
| Onward | £152.4m | 3,208 |
| Orbit | £103.9m | 1,500 |
| Places for People | £250m | 4,403 |
| Platform | £250m | 4,680 |
| Riverside | £80.8m | 1,530 |
| Sage | £73.5m | 1,750 |
| Sanctuary | £99.5m | 2,000 |
| Sovereign | £166.9m | 3,338 |
| Thirteen | £191.3m | 3,270 |
| Together | £249.9m | 4,047 |
| Torus | £140.3m | 2,736 |
| Vistry | £83m | 1,474 |
| Vivid | £105.6m | 1,550 |
Nicholas Harris, Chief Executive of Stonewater, said: “We are proud to have worked with Homes England and Guinness as a strategic partner over the past three years to ensure thousands of new affordable homes are delivered across the country.
“The additional support for the partnership that the government announced today will secure Stonewater’s ambitious development programme in the coming years and continue to support our vision of everyone having a place to call home.”
Catriona Simons, Chief Executive of Guinness, said: “We are delighted that Homes England has confirmed the extension of the Stonewater Guinness Strategic Partnership with an allocation of funding for our combined 4,180 new homes.
“We welcome the government’s continued commitment to work with housing associations to meet housing need across the country and across a range of tenures. With a longer horizon to 2029 we can keep investing for the future and create more places that people are proud to call home.”
Author: Ashley Booth-Dale