Comment from Helen Moore, group director of Orbit Homes:
“This is a significant and important change to the Affordable Homes Programme, that is long overdue but gratefully received. Drawing on our Homes England Strategic Partnership, our team’s skills in estate regeneration and new build, this will unlock the potential to improve our existing stock faster, while also enabling us to continue to build new homes to help address the acute housing crisis. It will make the regeneration of larger schemes much more viable, allowing us to tackle more challenging areas. This really is essential to support decarbonisation and, most importantly, improve the quality and energy efficiency of our customers’ homes.”