WEAVER VALE HOUSING TRUST LAUNCHES SHARED OWNERSHIP & SALES ARM TO HELP TACKLE HOUSING CRISIS

JV NorthHome building, News, Sales, Shared ownership

Croft View, Barnton

A JV North member has launched a new shared ownership and sales arm as part of its bold ambitions to build 500 homes by 2021. Weaver Vale Housing Trust, which owns 6,200 homes across Cheshire, has launched Prospa Homes in a bid to increase choice across the county and help tackle the housing crisis. As a not-for-profit organisation, all money … Read More

ONE MANCHESTER SCHEME IS JV NORTH AND INSIDE HOUSING’S DEVELOPMENT OF THE WEEK

JV NorthCommunities, Development, Home building, Homes England, News, Rent to Buy

Sandpiper Place One Manchester

One Manchester’s Sandpiper Place scheme is JV North and Inside Housing magazine’s Development of the Week [below]. The Rent to Buy development is on a site that was previously used as a sawmill, police station and warehouse. The 26-home scheme will include eight, three-storey and 18, two-storey houses all of which have three-bedrooms. Each will benefit from front and rear … Read More

COMMENT – FUTURE PROGRAMME CERTAINTY NEEDED TO HELP US BUILD MORE HOMES

JV NorthGovernment, Home building, Homes England, Investment, SOAHP 2016/21

JV North Chairman and Chief Executive at Weaver Vale Housing Trust, Wayne Gales, explains why future programme certainty will help the sector build more homes. It is rare in the world of housing development for money not to be the main issue in question from which everything else stems. For developing landlords including JV North – a consortium of housing … Read More

PINE COURT HOUSING ASSOCIATION WELCOMED AS NEW JV NORTH MEMBER

JV NorthAffordable rent, Home building, Homes England, Members, News

Pine Court Housing Association

JV North has welcomed a new member taking the total to 22 as it continues to build more homes. Liverpool-based Pine Court Housing Association, which is part of The Sovini Group that also includes One Vision Housing, has joined JV North as a procurement member. It will use JV North’s framework to build 49 properties in Birkenhead, Wirral in Homes … Read More

JV NORTH TO HOST CONSULTATION EVENT FOR FRAMEWORK CONTRACTORS

JV NorthContractors, Framework, Homes England, News

Social housing consortium JV North is holding a consultation event for contractors on its £180m home building framework. The session is being run by the Saffer Cooper Consultancy, which manages JV North’s development programme for members and liaises with Homes England on the consortium’s behalf. The aim is to update contractors of JV North’s home building work and discuss how … Read More

JV NORTH BUILDING 15% OF THE NORTH WEST’S SOCIAL HOUSING PROPERTIES

JV NorthGovernment, Home building, Homes England, News, SOAHP 2016/21

JV North delivered 15 per cent of the North West’s social housing properties, new figures reveal. Made up of nine full members across the region, JV North’s performance relates to the 2018/19 financial year. The consortium has significantly grown the size of its development work in the past 18 months. In the 2016/21 Shared Ownership Affordable Homes Programme, JV North … Read More

COMMENT – PROGRAMME CERTAINTY IS WHAT WE CRAVE MOST WHEN IT COMES TO DEVELOPMENT

JV NorthGovernment, Homes England, News, SOAHP 2016/21

JV North Chairman, Wayne Gales, explains to Inside Housing that future certainty beyond the current 2016/21 Shared Ownership Affordable Homes Programme is most keenly craved by home builders like the consortium. Click here to read the full story: https://www.insidehousing.co.uk/comment/programme-certainty-is-what-we-crave-most-when-it-comes-to-development-60212  

OVER 50 SME CONTRACTORS NOW APPOINTED TO JV NORTH’S FRAMEWORK

JV NorthFramework, Homes England, News, SME, SOAHP 2016/21

Over 50 small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) have now been appointed to a consortium’s social home building framework. In total, 51 contractors have been selected since JV North launched a specific procurement lot for SMEs 18 months ago. Appointed companies can bid for development schemes valued at under £1 million. Work offered by JV North’s 22 housing association members is … Read More

NEW PHOTOGRAPHS SHOW PROGRESS ON JV NORTH MEMBER’S £20m DEVELOPMENT

JV NorthCommunities, Home building, Homes England, News, SOAHP 2016/21

JVN Scholars Fields

New photography shows progress on Wythenshawe Community Housing Group’s latest large-scale development scheme. Nearly 150 homes are being built in the town in a £19.6 million project christened Scholars Fields. Previously a school playing field for the Manchester Enterprise Academy, 38 two-bed apartments and 109 two or three-bed houses will be built by July 2020. There will be a mixture … Read More

NEW CHAIRMAN APPOINTED TO THE JV NORTH BOARD

JV NorthHome building, Homes England, News, Personnel

North West social housing consortium JV North has appointed its new Chairman. Wayne Gales, who is Chief Executive at Weaver Vale Housing Trust, takes over from Nigel Wilson who has been in the post since 2013. Mr Wilson is leaving his position as Chief Executive of JV North member Wythenshawe Community Housing Group at the end of the year to … Read More