Housing association teams up with four contractors to deliver 1,600 homes

Bromford, the Wolverhampton-based housing association, has teamed up with a quartet of developers to build up to 1,600 new homes in the next four years in a deal worth £160m.

The Bromford Construction Partnership (BCP), a contractor and development framework agreement, will see the social housing operation work with EG Carter, Galliford Try Partnerships, Lovell Partnerships and Speller Metcalfe on the scheme.

The contract will see affordable mixed-tenure homes built mainly in the wider Gloucestershire area but also as far south as Bristol and up to Worcestershire. It will also feature a programme of regeneration.

The 400-homes a year BCP project will boost Bromford’s wider ambitions to deliver 1,400 homes annually in the next decade.

Part of the funding for Bromford’s housebuilding programme came from a Homes England grant of £66m after Bromford was named as a strategic partner for the government’s housing delivery agency in January this year.

Martyn Blackman, Bromford’s executive director of new homes, said: “With the impressive track records of Galliford Try Partnerships, Lovell Partnerships, EG Carter and Speller Metcalfe, we are confident the BCP will demonstrate how collaborative working can help deliver the high quality homes needed to combat the UK’s housing crisis.”

Formed in 1963 Bromford currently owns and manages approximately 44,000 homes across the Midlands and the south-west of England.