Sanctuary aiming to build 150 homes in Cheshire and Warrington

Sanctuary Group has announced plans to build nearly 150 new properties across Cheshire and Warrington for local people.

Construction of the new homes will help increase housing in the area and also enable first time buyers to get on to the property ladder with around 80 being developed for shared ownership.

Grant funding from the Homes and Communities Agency (HCA), through its Shared Ownership and Affordable Homes Programme 2016 to 2021, will contribute towards the cost of more thn 60 of the shared ownership homes.

Sanctuary has received nearly £90m of funding from the HCA to develop 2,265 affordable homes across England over the next five years.

The funding was the largest grant allocation from the HCA under its £1.28bn programme to support the building of 46,534 new affordable homes.
 
Sanctuary will use the HCA funding, combined with the group’s investment, to build a range of new homes. As well as providing new housing, construction of the properties will help create numerous employment and training opportunities.
 
Peter Martin, Sanctuary Group director – development, said: “Our work in the area forms part of our wider national development plans to build 30,000 homes in England and Scotland by 2026 and help increase housing across the country.”

Danielle Gillespie, general manager for the North West at the HCA, added: “This new allocation for Sanctuary is part of the Government’s commitment to increase housing supply and halt the decline in affordability.

“Our funding will improve housing choice for people in Cheshire and Warrington and support Sanctuary’s very successful record of delivering more affordable homes for local people.”