Place North West | Sefton to bring social housing delivery back in-house
Sarah Townsend The council is to acquire properties from Sandway Homes, the housing development company it set up in January 2019, as part of a drive to re-enter the social housing market for the first time in almost 15 years. Sefton Council completed a social housing stock transfer in 2006 so that the development and management of homes was overseen at arms’ length. However, it now wishes to re-enter the market, beginning with the acquisition of nine under-development apartments on the planned 70-unit Sefton Grange scheme at Buckley Hill Lane from Sandway Homes. The council will then need ...