Buckinghamshire housing association acquires 319 homes from Riverside

Red Kite Community Housing has completed the purchase of 319 homes from Riverside Housing Group.

The homes, based on estates in Windsor and Maidenhead, are made up of general needs houses and flats, plus an opportunity to develop some land in the future.

Trevor Morrow, Red Kite’s Group Chief Executive, said: “The homes have been the subject of a previous transfer from another housing association, so we want to ensure tenants feel confident they now have a long-term local landlord who wants to bring them into the heart of our community.

“The purchase of these homes offers us an excellent opportunity to grow by boosting the number of homes within Red Kite, thereby spreading our cost base.”

Red Kite Community Housing owns and manages more than 6,600 homes.

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Two Rivers Hosing secures over £4m in government funding for warmer homes

Two Rivers Housing will receive a £4.56m grant to help improve the energy efficiency of hundreds of their tenant’s homes in the Forest of Dean and across Gloucestershire.

The grant comes from the government’s Warm Homes: Social Housing Fund.

Two Rivers will use the grant over the next three years to partially fund upgrades to more than 750 of its homes, including energy saving fittings such as solar panels, loft insulation and improved ventilation systems to homes that have low energy ratings.

“This will make a huge difference for families in Gloucestershire and the Forest of Dean who have been affected by the cost-of-living crisis and are struggling to heat their homes’, said Jonny Jones, Executive Director of Homes at Two Rivers Housing.

“It will help us deliver on our promise to do everything we can to make sure that our homes are modern, warm, safe and affordable for our tenants to live in.”

The housing association has also received grants from previous waves of the Social Housing Fund (formerly called the Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund or SHDF) as well as the government’s ECO4 scheme.

That funding helped install air-source heat pumps in 225 of its tenants’ homes over the past two years.

The government’s Warm Homes: Social Housing Fund is allocated to local authorities and housing associations for work to improve the energy performance of homes currently rated below EPC Band C.

Two Rivers Housing manages more than 4,600 homes in the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire and nearby Herefordshire.