Vistry is to focus its entire business on partnerships housing following a review of the group’s strategy in the wake of its £1.1bn merger with Countryside late last year.

The listed housebuilding giant is to merge its 8,700-home traditional housebuilding business in with the newly bolstered partnership housing business, until now known as Countryside Partnerships, under plan to take advantage of the dire need for affordable mixed tenure housing in the UK.

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