Growth and Development update – April 2022

In our latest Growth and Development newsletter we share our key development news and highlight our areas of focus and growth aspirations.

2021/22 was a record-breaking year for the Growth & Development team at Longhurst Group. Working across the Midlands and East of England we:

• Completed 679 new homes, our largest development programme to date
• Generated a sales income of over £22 million, from the sale of 221 shared ownership homes and a further £9 million from asset sales, staircasing and right to buy
• Approved 25 new sites which will deliver over 800 new homes.

As well as the sheer scale of our programme, 2021/22 saw us take further steps to meet the Future Homes Standard by focusing on new technology and solutions. Building on our experience of using air source heat pump technology, we've gone further with two pilot studies featuring a ground source heat pump solution in Huntingdon and Boston. This will provide valuable user and cost data across nearly 200 properties.

None of this would've been possible without the relationships we've developed across the supply chain and working in partnership with local authorities, developers and consultants. We hope that 2022/23 will be another record breaker but we'll only be able to achieve this with your help and our dedicated team continuing to deliver such great results.

Marcus Keys, Executive Director of Growth and Development

Building great partnerships

Longhurst Group completes redevelopment of former Welland Hospital site in Spalding

Longhurst Group has delivered a new affordable housing development on the former site of Welland Hospital in Spalding.

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Latest developments

Production begins on low-carbon homes for innovative new scheme in Cambridgeshire

Production has started on 56 factory-built new homes for our innovative new development in Cambridgeshire.

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Our customers and colleagues

New affordable homes provide couple with chance to get on housing ladder

Longhurst Group’s new Ashvale Place development in Tuxford is providing more affordable housing in the area.

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A day in the life of a New Homes Officer

Demi has been a New Homes Officer for nearly three years, having started as a Sales Progressor.

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Planning

Plans submitted for 63 affordable homes in Cambridgeshire

More than 60 affordable homes could be built in Elm after plans were submitted to the local authority.

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Start on site

Work on development of 100 affordable new homes in Lincolnshire gets underway

Work has started on 100 affordable new homes in the Lincolnshire village of Witham St Hughs.

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Work begins at former barracks and airfield site

Work is underway on the first two parcels of land as part of a landmark development at Waterbeach Barracks near Cambridge.

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