About development
We're one of the largest housing providers in the south with 50,000 homes and assets and 114,000 residents living in them. We build quality, sustainable homes and we believe that collaboration is key to solving the housing crisis. It's why we're passionate about partnering with organisations that share our values.
Our development commitment
We believe that everyone has the right to a high-quality, safe, warm and sustainable home.
But it’s not just the homes, we believe in creating places where people feel part of a community. It’s a place where you can dream big, achieve your goals and be who you want to be.
There aren’t enough homes for everyone who needs one.
To help change this we’re building at least 10,000 new homes by 2030.
Innovation is going to be key.
We need to increase delivery speed and take control of quality. Challenge accepted.
We’ve committed to:
- Working with Homes England and other organisations that share our values to solve the housing challenge through collaboration.
- Creating high-quality homes. Our homes will enhance communities and be well-managed and maintained.
- Working in partnership with local authorities and other housing associations, as lead partner of Wayfarer. We’ll continue to expand on the 100,000 homes owned or managed by Wayfarer partners throughout the south of England.
- Delivering innovatively. We’re going to maximise the number of off-site manufactured homes we deliver to minimise our carbon footprint and increase delivery.
- Using our in-house construction team to build our own homes. We’ll improve efficiency and quality and help to build great places to live.
- Having a solution for every site. We can provide the right development whether that’s land led, regeneration, joint ventures or Section 106
Want to know more? Take a look at our full strategy or look through our Development Portfolio.
Sawyers Close
In December the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead (RBWM) agreed to grant planning permission for 413 new homes and the phased demolition of the four existing blocks at Sawyers Close.
Weymouth
Lovell’s joint venture with Abri, one of the south’s largest housing providers, will deliver 500 new homes at Bincombe Park, as part of an urban extension on the outskirts of the town.
Working collaboratively
By working together and forming strategic alliances we’re able to achieve so much more. Some of our key partners include:
Wayfarer Partnership
Homes England
Building Better
Thakeham have been working for many years with Abri. Throughout this period we have found all members of the SLT, Sales and Development Teams a real pleasure to deal with. In our dealings Abri have always been commercial in their decision making, pro-active in hitting key milestones, with all members of the Abri team having a real ‘can-do’ attitude to all aspects of a project. This has led to a real positive working relationship between both organisations. We are now getting towards the end of our first JV with Abri and the biggest compliment I can give this project is that we would have no hesitation in working on future JV’s with them.
Vistry and Abri have been working in partnership to develop a 120 unit housing scheme in Sayers Common. It has been a pleasure to bring our teams together, in order to successfully deliver this site and hopefully this just one of many projects we will deliver together in the future
For over 50 years we have worked in partnership with housing partners to create great places to live where communities can thrive. With collaboration at the core of our business, finding a reputable partner to help us deliver above and beyond expectations is key. From day one, the team at Abri have lived up to their reputation with an experienced and friendly approach, in addition to the high-quality services they bring to projects. We have a shared vision of creating quality, affordable homes for local communities and our Foxglove Meadows development in Weston-super-Mare is a great example of this. Working with Abri on this project has enabled us to successfully surpass key goals in good time, and to provide quality homes in communities where they’re needed most. We are very much looking forward to continuing our work with Abri and partnering on future projects to aid the creation of thriving new communities and help reduce the shortage of affordable homes.
Dorset Council have been very impressed with the recent affordable housing schemes brought forward by Abri. These have included small rural sites, community land trust developments and large joint venture schemes. Abri have worked to increase the delivery of affordable homes in the Dorset area to help meet the high level of housing need. Dorset Council have supported a number of these developments and have always been pleased with Abri’s desire to build high quality homes on well designed developments. We hope to do more work with Abri to increase the number of homes they are bringing forward in our area.
