Top joint venture developments

St Nicholas’ Church (see main picture)

Number of homes in development: 18
Cost: £3.5m

“An absolute credit to all concerned for delivering this iconic project and one that clearly is close to the community.”

David Jubb, director of Greater London residential development, JLL

The scheme: The London Diocese had been looking for a way to update St Nicholas’ Church, hall and vicarage, in Perivale, west London, for more than a decade when it joined forces with Asra Housing Group, Perivale Parish Church Council and Ealing Council.

Together they have delivered a brand new church and vicarage, and provided much-needed affordable housing and community facilities.

The redeveloped scheme includes 11 one or two-bedroom homes for affordable rent, six three-bedroom shared ownership homes and a four-bedroom vicarage.

Funded by Asra, with a £495,850 grant from the Greater London Assembly, this is the second development by the 14,000-home housing association in partnership with the London Diocese; in 2012, it completed 20 affordable homes, along with a new community hall and vicarage at St John’s Church in Wembley.

Heys Court

Number of homes in development: 25
Cost: £2m

“An impressive, complex project that shows long-term partnerships can and will deliver.”

David Jubb, director of Greater London residential development, JLL

The scheme: Heys Court in Stockport was originally built as a sheltered housing scheme by 4,500-home Equity Housing Group in 1978. Thirty-five years later, it had become so unpopular and difficult to let, it was shut down.

In 2015, a remodelled and refurbished Heys Court opened its doors, providing 19 one-bed independent living apartments, six higher dependency assessment apartments, and communal and staff facilities.

Developed by Equity, Stockport Council and Stockport Learning Disability Partnership (SLDP), the new scheme responds to an urgent need for one-bed, self-contained accommodation for adults with learning disabilities in the local area.

Equity continues as the landlord of the complex, with the SLDP providing residents with intensive support, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

College Mews

Number of homes in development: 7
Cost: £900,000

“Excellent innovation in partnering with the local college to design and build an affordable scheme.”

Brian Ham, executive director of enterprise and development, Home Group

The scheme: Nearly 200 West Suffolk College students worked alongside 6,000-home Havebury Housing Partnership on the design and build of College Mews, St Edmundsbury.

The architectural plans for the four one-bed flats and three two-bed houses - all for affordable rent - were drawn up by higher education students on the construction management and building services courses before being fine-tuned by Infinity Architects.

Work began on the site of some underused garages in November 2014, with more than 180 trainee bricklayers, plasterers, carpenters, plumbers and electricians working alongside Cocksedge Building Contractors.
The students’ work counted towards their qualifications.

Park Hill

Number of homes in development: 874
Cost: circa £140m

“Park Hill is an exemplary regeneration that shows partnerships with the appropriate skills can deliver exceptional results.”

David Jubb, director of Greater London residential development, JLL

The scheme: Regeneration company Urban Splash partnered with 150,000-home Places for People in 2013 to deliver the Park Hill development in Sheffield.

As Europe’s largest listed building, Park Hill was one of the first large-scale post-war social housing projects and an emblem for social change in the 1960s. By the 1980s, however, it had fallen into disrepair. After it was Grade II listed by English Heritage in 1998, Urban Splash began redeveloping the landmark.

Having completed the first phase of 78 homes in 2013, Urban Splash entered into a joint venture with Places for People to redevelop the rest of the mixed tenure scheme. A total of 874 homes are planned: 634 for market sale, 200 for social rent and 40 for shared ownership. So far, 260 have been completed.

Vennel Gardens

Number of homes in development: 16
Cost: £3.3m

“A unique partnership that serves a crucial need in the community. The collaboration with the University of Stirling is most impressive.”

David Jubb, director of Greater London residential development, JLL

The scheme: When Kiln Court sheltered housing complex in Irvine was deemed not fit-for-purpose, North Ayrshire Council decided to build new homes on the site.

This new scheme was designed and delivered by the local authority in partnership with the University of Stirling Dementia Services Development Centre, the local health and social care partnership and third sector organisations.

Kiln Court’s bedsit accommodation has been replaced with 16 one-bed homes, with spacious lounge, dining room, courtyard and a visiting services room.

Residents pay social rent and have access to private communal areas, as well as a dementia-friendly community hub. The hub offers lunch clubs, movie nights and other activities to improve the lives of older people.

The Liverpool Housing Partnership

Number of homes in development: 1,500 new and 1,000 refurbished empty homes
Cost: £205m over the next five years, with potential for a further £200m

“An impressive partnership set to deliver much needed homes in an area where viability must be difficult.”

David Jubb, director of Greater London residential development, JLL

The scheme: By working together in a public-private housing delivery consortium, Liverpool Council, house builder Redrow Homes and 15,000-home association Liverpool Mutual Homes, along with contractor Willmott Dixon, are able to respond to the city’s housing market and decide where and when homes are built.

The Liverpool Housing Partnership is influencing the tenure mix of new homes built across a 11,000 square mile local authority area. It is planning 750 properties for market sale, 400 for affordable rent, 150 for shared ownership, 150 for private rent, and 50 Starter Homes, and to bring empty properties back into use.