CPUK expansion builds with social housing arm

INDEPENDENT constructor CPUK is continuing its expansion programme with the launch of a specialised social housing division.
 
CPUK Affordable Living is working with development partner Lane End Developments on a number of projects in the sector.
 
The West Lancashire-based builder’s new division’s ambition is to provide more than 300 new homes in the social housing sector every year and it already has an £18m construction pipeline.
 
CPUK Affordable Living is working on its first schemes, including a development in Bosley near Macclesfield for the Equity Housing Group. Other projects are underway in north and east Lancashire.
 
Cheshire-based Lane End Developments sources land and delivers high quality developments for registered housing providers.
 
Richard Harrison, managing director of Lane End Developments, says the registered housing provider sector is “an exciting environment to be working in.”
 
He said: “Lane End Developments and CPUK have forged a strong alliance moving forward with a current workload of more than 300 units starting in 2015.
 
“And the 2016 pipeline is already being developed, with more than 300 units, again with CPUK across the North West.”
 
CPUK Affordable Living constructs the schemes for the housing association, delivering projects on time and to budget.
 
It is the second specialised division created by CPUK in the past six months as it embarks on a major growth strategy and continues to develop as a leading construction group in all sectors.
 
Earlier this year it launched CPUK Civils & Remediation and appointed experienced industry expert Jack Rowley as divisional managing director.
 
That subsidiary company now allows CPUK to offer a full construction and development service to its clients from demolition and site remediation to building work.
 
It supports the existing work CPUK does on challenging sites across the UK and also undertakes site remediation contracts in its own right.
 
Both new divisions are based at CPUK’s headquarters at White Moss Business Park in Skelmersdale.
 
CPUK managing director Steve Burke is also in charge of its Affordable Living operation. He said: “There is a lot of potential in the social housing sector for delivering well-built residential developments anywhere in the UK.
 
“We have forged a strategic alliance with Lane End Developments, which is already beginning to provide quality new build solutions to many of the key housing associations in the North West.
 
“We’ve got ambitious plans for the new division. It will play a strong role in our continued development and open the door to more new opportunities for us.
 
“We see social housing has a strong growth area and believe we are now well placed to take advantage of that.”