Clyde Valley Group building on success
Lanarkshire housing association Clyde Valley Group (CVG) has passed a major milestone by building over 1700 houses in the past 15 years, with plans to develop another 660 by 2018.
Through a period of external challenges in the industry and beyond, the Group has continued to grow and diversify its offering to customers, providing high-quality, affordable homes at social, and mid-market, rental values.
By adding a mid-market rent (MMR) option, CVG is able to offer homes to those people who may never have been eligible by simply being on the housing waiting list and extends to them the possibility of a new home at a fair rent, on a rolling tenure.
MMR has already proved to be popular, with some sites being over-subscribed at the first time of asking.
Other benefits include the local environments being enhanced and regenerated – for example, the developments have been built on the sites of a derelict library, a former Indian restaurant/public house, a vacant social work office and a factory industrial site.
Campbell Boyd, chairman at CVG, said of the Group’s objectives: “The Board of the Clyde Valley Group has committed to the supply of new homes in its Corporate Strategy to 2020, across a variety of tenures. We can make a great housing contribution that helps satisfy the needs of customers who have different circumstances. We are seeing positive outcomes on our social housing developments. Our on-going aim is to provide much-needed, affordable homes to our local community. Ultimately, customers and communities benefit from having sustainable homes, providing comfortable living and a secure, safe environment to live in.”