Welcome to our Development Update
Longhurst Group
We provide much-needed homes and support services with a vision to improve the lives of our customers and communities.
In our latest Growth and Development newsletter we share our key development news and highlight our areas of focus and growth aspirations.
2022/23?was another strong year of?growth.
Working across the Midlands and East of England we:
We also saw?new opportunities to develop unused brownfield?sites into thriving communities while keeping on track with our business objective of delivering 600-700 homes each year.?
We've continued to build great partnerships as demonstrated by?our successful bid of ￡6.3m of grant funding as part of the?Department of Energy Security and Net Zero Decarbonisation Fund.?
Our relationship with MAN Group goes from strength to strength as we take over the lettings and management of their developments in Alconbury Weald, Cambridgeshire?and Dysart Road, in Grantham?developments. Once again we're working with Urban and Civic at Waterbeach to bring further affordable properties with?a modern and contemporary design to a sought-after location.?
None of this would've?been possible without the other long-standing relationships we've?developed across the supply chain and working in partnership with local authorities, developers and consultants.
Marcus?Keys
Executive Director of Growth and Development.?
How to stay in touch
We're excited to announce a new dedicated website focused on our sales and development activity. The?site, which comprises the latest news?about our joint ventures, land requirements,?site updates and planning submissions, can be viewed?here. ??
You can also keep up to date with our news and announcements on social media by following us using the links below.
Successful bid for Government funding
We’ve launched a project to improve the energy efficiency of hundreds of homes after a successful bid for Government funding.
We’re among the latest wave of organisations that will receive a grant from the Government’s Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund (SHDF).
We’ll receive a ￡6.3m grant, which will be used to help upgrade the energy efficiency of 581 homes located throughout the East Midlands, North Lincolnshire and West Norfolk over the next two years.
Innovative Huntingdon development is progressing well
We've teamed up with?Huntingdon District Council,?LoCaL Homes?and Burmor Construction to deliver a 56?home?fully-affordable housing development in Huntingdon, which is being built using an innovative modern method of construction (MMC).
California Meadows will be made up of?one, two and three-bedroom properties and the first homes at the development are nearing completion.
The timber-framed panels are built using sustainably-sourced timber and insulated and cladded in the factory before being transported to site and craned into place.?
Marcus Keys, our Executive Director of Growth and Development, said "We're keen to explore modern methods of construction as it'll help us to reduce our carbon footprint during construction and ensure improved levels of quality in the end product."
64 fully affordable homes completed in Sleaford
We?teamed up with local construction firm Lindum Group to build 64 two, three and four-bedroom homes as part of the wider Handley Chase development which was approved in July 2015.?The wider scheme involves creating a Sustainable Urban Extension (SUE) to Sleaford including 1,450 houses, a new school and commercial space.
Part-funded through our strategic partnership with Homes England,?the completed homes have been?handed over and residents are now moving in.
Following the success of this development,?we've secured two further S106 opportunities on the same development with Taylor Wimpey and Keepmoat. Taylor Wimpey will be handing over 23 affordable properties (16 affordable rent and seven Shared Ownership) and we'll take handover of a further 33 built by Keepmoat (23 affordable rent and 10 Shared Ownership). Handovers of the first properties have already started.
Work starts in Claypole
We’ve partnered with Lindum Group to build 16 new and affordable?homes in the Lincolnshire village of?Claypole.
The new homes will be timber-framed and consist of four bungalows and a mix of two and three-bedroom homes.
Six of the houses will be made available for Shared Ownership and 10 will be let for affordable rent.
New homes have arrived in Grantham
Vista is?the name given to a 227 property development off Dysart Road in Grantham. The selection of?two and three-bedroom homes will be available as?Shared Ownership,?outright sale and to rent.
Click here to see the property types on offer.?
Watch a 3D tour of The Holt, a 3 bedroom property at Vista.?
Work completed at fully affordable Boston development
We’ve taken handover of the final properties at our 47-home Caxton Place development on Norfolk Street in Boston. The regenerated site takes its name from William Caxton, the man credited with introducing the printing press to England in the 15th century and in recognition of the site's former use as?Magnadata printing works.
Working with construction company D Brown, the fully affordable site has delivered much needed homes to the town.
A day in the life of an Asset Sales Officer,?Emily Hetherington-Field
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My role in the Asset Sales Team focuses on the re-sale of our retirement living homes and the sale of our stock disposals – this can be houses, land, care homes – anything really!
Each side to my job is very different so means my days and weeks can be very varied.
The retirement living re-sales aspect is very customer focused – whether that be speaking with the family of a leaseholder who has died to explain how they go about selling, or chatting to an excited purchaser. The conversations we have will often tug at my heart strings! I often keep in regular contact with our scheme managers throughout the sale process too.
With the stock disposals, I work closely with our Asset Maximisation and Asset Investment teams. They find the properties, pull together an options appraisal report to go to our Board for approval to sell. At that point, I become involved in collating the information required for sale – liaising with solicitors for a title check, speaking to estate agents / auction houses to market. There will always be a mix of property at that early stage, some on the market, and some with solicitors so a lot of chasing is required to keep things moving.
On a Wednesday I have weekly catch up calls with our solicitors to chat through how things are progressing and go through anything more complex in detail. A lot of things aren’t straightforward but that certainly keeps the day interesting and helps expand my knowledge!
More than 60 affordable homes are to be built in Elm after plans were approved by the local council.
We’ve partnered with Bowsall Developments Ltd to provide 63 homes on Gosmoor Lane.
The new development will be made up of one, two, three and four bedroom homes, including maisonettes, bungalows and houses.
Some of the homes on the development will also be built to a fully accessible standard.
Plans approved for 18 affordable homes near Lincoln
We’ve teamed up with local construction firm Lindum Group to deliver 18 affordable homes in Bassingham near Lincoln.
Our plans have now received approval from North Kesteven District Council at the second attempt and work could begin later this summer.
Nick Worboys, our Director of Growth, Development and Sales, said: "This development will provide much-needed affordable housing to the area, so we're delighted to have received approval from the planning committee at the second attempt."
30 new affordable homes coming to?Peterborough
We're delivering 30 new and affordable homes on land to the east of Bramble Close in Newborough after our plans were approved by the local authority.
The homes will be available for social rent, Rent to Buy and Shared Ownership and will be a combination of one, two and three bedroom properties.
Work starts on 135 home development ‘The Leas’ in Boston
Work has got under way on our new 135 home development in Boston.
We’re building homes on Toot Lane in the town, and all of them will come with ground source heat pumps.
The development will be made up of 12 one-bedroom homes, 69 two-bedroom properties, 50 three-bedroom homes and a further four with four-bedrooms.
In total, 36 of the homes will be made available on a Shared Ownership basis, 22 for Rent to Buy and the remaining homes will be available for social rent.?It's being part-funded through a grant from Homes England as part of our strategic partnership.
New homes coming to Leicestershire
Working with William Davis, we're bringing affordable homes to two sought-after locations in Leicestershire.?
Honeysuckle Rise ?in?Burton on the Wolds is situated in north Leicestershire, just three miles from Loughborough.?A selection of 15 semi-detached Shared Ownership homes will soon be ready to reserve.?
In the south of the county in?Market Harborough is Wellington Place , another affordable development in an equally idyllic location.?There are two property types available,?with the option to purchase between a 45 percent and 75 percent share of the lease.?
Marcus Keys?
Executive Director of Growth?and Development
Nick Worboys?
Director of Growth, Development and Sales?
Jyoti Madlani?
Head of Land and New Business
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