Acquisition of Trafford Housing Trust completes
L&Q, one of the UK’s largest housing associations and developers, has today completed the acquisition of Trafford Housing Trust (THT), for an undisclosed sum.
The deal creates a £1bn+ turnover group with more than 110,000 properties nationally and will facilitate £4bn investment in creating 20,000 new homes across the North West
The acquisition and integration with London-based L&Q’s existing operations, combines THT’s local knowledge, relationships and reputation for quality and innovation with L&Q’s 50 years’ experience in planning and infrastructure delivery and as a developer of homes, places and communities.
This deal has grown out of a long-standing and highly-successful joint venture partnership and will support a long-term ambition to build 20,000 much-needed new homes in the North West.
It will also double Trafford Housing Trust’s social investment in the region with the establishment of a £4m North West Foundation.
In addition to supporting Trafford Housing Trust’s new home development plans, the acquisition will enable THT to enhance its Quality Home Standard for 9,000 social homes across Greater Manchester, giving customers a better standard of living.
Operationally, THT will keep its name and corporate structure and will sit as a stand alone company within the L&Q Group.
The acquisition does not affect existing staffing numbers and there will be no compulsory redundancies.
The terms of the acquisition agreement enable THT to retain and reinvest any profits made through new home sales into its own schemes and social programmes.
David Montague, L&Q Group chief executive, said: “Together, L&Q and Trafford Housing Trust can do so much more to address the need for more affordable housing in the North West and to invest in local communities.”
Larry Gold, THT chief executive, said: “Trafford Housing Trust has an outstanding reputation as a builder of communities.
“As a self-managed subsidiary of L&Q, we will be able to build more homes, improve more lives and invest in more communities at a vastly improved scale and pace.
“We will balance the need for new homes in our region with the ongoing requirement and commitment to our customers to provide the best possible social housing.”
