Partnership deals will lead to 752 new homes for North West

Torus, the North West affordable housing provider and developer, has signed two partnerships that will deliver more than 750 affordable homes across the region.

It will provide 589 affordable homes as part of a seven year deal with Castle Green Partnerships, and 163 affordable homes with Northstone, part of Peel L&P.

The partnership with Castle Green, which has operations in Preston Brook and St Asaph will see more than £142m invested in building affordable homes across Cheshire at Daresbury, Crewe and Congleton and the popular Thornton area of Sefton in the Liverpool City Region.

There are 589 homes planned under the deal, including a mix of affordable rent and shared ownership properties.

They will be built across four sites – Flowers Lane, Crewe; Bridgewater View, Daresbury; Viking Way, Congleton and Orchard Place, Thornton – all due for completion by 2030.

Eoin O’Donnell, partnerships director for Castle Green Partnerships, part of Castle Green Homes, said: “We’re proud to have established strong links with Torus to deliver much-needed high quality affordable homes over the coming years.

“This will initially increase the options available to people in Daresbury and Crewe in Cheshire and Thornton in Liverpool with Congleton to follow next year. The partnership with Torus will benefit both businesses and the communities where we deliver new homes.”

Torus Developments managing director, Chris Bowen, said: “This deal is exciting for a number of reasons – first of all, it represents our commitment to working closely with Castle Green Homes for a number of years, but secondly it highlights our dedication to investing, long term, in building great, affordable homes in areas that we don’t have a large presence in as a developer.”

Meanwhile, Torus is partnering with Northstone in plans to deliver 163 affordable homes, with Torus investing £35m into two sites at Tulach (88 homes) in Wigan and Glisk (75 homes) in Ellesmere Port.

Chris Bowen said: “As a developer, we know how effective long term trusted relationships with partners are to building homes and communities that give people the opportunity to live in high quality homes and get onto the property ladder. Through working with Northstone, we are able to not only expand our development programme, but our geographical footprint, and give even more people the chance to benefit from affordable housing provision.”

Jo Allen, partnerships director at Northstone, said: “Through providing affordable housing options such as shared ownership within our housing offer, it will mean that more people will be able to call a Northstone house their home. It’s vital we get that mix right to get more people onto the property ladder.”