About development
We're a large housing provider that owns and manages more than 58,000 homes and community assets, and serves more than 113,000 customers. We work with over 48 local authorities, 94 parliamentary constituencies, and community partners to deliver our services. 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.
We believe that everyone has the right to a high-quality, safe, warm and sustainable home
We’ve launched our new investment strategy, setting out our ambitious five-year plan to invest record amounts into existing homes, double our contribution of new homes as quickly as conditions allow and create a customer-led home and place standard.
Building 20,000 new homes by 2036
We’re going bold and ambitious in our new investment strategy. We aim to build 20,000 new homes by 2036, doubling our previous target of 10,000 by 2030, to step up to meet the demand for more quality affordable homes and the government’s housing commitment.
To support delivery we work with partners and use a mix of funding and delivery routes, including our Strategic Partnership with Homes England, joint ventures, and a balanced pipeline that includes section 106, land-led opportunities and regeneration schemes.
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Foxes Run, Castle Cary development proposal
Find out more about the Foxes Run developmentWorking 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 Strategic Partnership
Greener Futures Partnership
Consortium of Associations South East (CASE)
Homes for the South West
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.
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.
