A housing consortium that includes contractor Durkan has won a 拢400m regeneration contract across eight estates in Hackney, east London.

Metropolitan Community Futures, a partnership of Metropolitan Housing Trust, Community Housing Group and Durkan Estates, has been appointed to regenerate 1,234 homes in the area. Metropolitan Community Futures is a partnership incorporating Durkan Estates, Metropolitan Housing Trust and Community Housing Group.

Over a period of five to eight years, the homes will be either be redeveloped or refurbished, with new-build homes designed to achieve a 鈥渧ery good鈥� EcoHomes rating.

In another housing deal this week, the Matrix Partnership, which includes Accord, Ashram, Caldmore, Rooftop and Trident Housing Associations, has won two contracts worth 拢30m in the Midlands.

The first is a 拢20m contract to build 150 homes on a brownfield site in West Bromwich in partnership with Mar City Developments; and the second is a 拢10m deal to build a 55-unit development for older people at the Broadlands site in Bloxwich near Walsall.

Topics