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Communities
While housing numbers are important, our aim is to ensure we create well-served mixed communities that have a balance of homes, jobs, services, open space and leisure facilities, making places where people will enjoy living and working.
This has been demonstrated through our Millennium Communities programme, providing 7,000 exemplar homes, 1,000 new jobs and at least 50,000 square metres of commercial floor space, leading to innovative and sustainable communities.
Low cost home ownership
Creating mixed communities means that we need to ensure that there is a good cross section of homes and residents. Through our low cost home ownership programmes, such as the London-Wide Initiative and the First Time Buyer’s Initiative, we have helped more people to get a foot on the property ladder by giving them access to affordable homes in their local area.
Working with local people
We also recognise the importance of community consultation early on in a project and how the on-going management and empowerment of local communities allows places to remain well maintained, thriving and socially cohesive. We are committed to working with local people and with our partners to deliver places that have long term sustainability.
Creating mixed communities
Within urban areas, we are helping local authorities to improve existing housing stock through a programme of estate regeneration. We often work with the Housing Corporation to provide funding solutions that will allow us to unlock the potential of some of the country’s most run down and deprived areas.
In Hattersley in Greater Manchester – an overspill estate on the edge of a rural area - we are facilitating the regeneration of the estate through the planned release of surplus public sector land to create a mixed-community.
Our work in new towns such as Milton Keynes has led to the creation of one of the country’s most successful towns in terms of its growing and thriving population and its recognition as a major business investment destination.
Case studies
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Historic homes move with the times. |
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Melanie moves in.
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Gateways to the city. |
More stories available from the Case studies page.
