ISOS wins £5.3m deal to build affordable homes
HOUSING association ISOS has won a four-year £5.3m funding deal to provide 275 affordable homes around the region.
The North East company owns and manages more than 12,000 homes from Berwick to Stockton, and has announced projects in locations such as Wallsend, Washington and Hexham.
The deal has been agreed with the Homes and Communities Agency. North East HCA area manager Bill Carr said the agreement would “provide not only more houses throughout the North East region, but also homes that are more suited to modern living.”
The HCA agreed its first Affordable Homes Programme grant with Esh Group for 541 properties last month.
ISOS generated turnover of £46.2m in 2010/11 and employs more than 360 staff. It is working with the HCA on its Affordable Housing Programme which the Government’s housing and regeneration specialist hopes will provide up to 80,000 more affordable homes by 2015.
With other development schemes still to be finalised, ISOS has revealed it will be building 34 homes in a new phase of Stockton’s Mandale Park scheme, 32 in Wallsend town centre and 15 on the Covers estate. It will add another 19 homes to the Cleadon Park scheme in South Shields as part of phase five of development, and 16 bungalows in Newbiggin Hall in Newcastle. It will also build seven new houses in Hexham.
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