{"id":57824,"date":"2019-05-31T07:51:41","date_gmt":"2019-05-31T06:51:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/?p=57824"},"modified":"2019-05-31T07:51:41","modified_gmt":"2019-05-31T06:51:41","slug":"leeds-social-housing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/leeds-social-housing\/57824\/","title":{"rendered":"Willmott Dixon to deliver social housing in Leeds"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-57825 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Willmott-Dixon-to-deliver-social-housing-in-Leeds.jpg\" alt=\"social housing, willmott dixon,\" width=\"554\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Willmott-Dixon-to-deliver-social-housing-in-Leeds.jpg 554w, https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Willmott-Dixon-to-deliver-social-housing-in-Leeds-300x244.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Willmott-Dixon-to-deliver-social-housing-in-Leeds-517x420.jpg 517w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 554px) 100vw, 554px\" \/><\/h2>\n<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/www.willmottdixon.co.uk\/\">Willmott Dixon<\/a> has won a \u00a39.3m construction contract with Leeds City Council to deliver affordable homes in Gipton and Osmondthorpe<\/h2>\n<p>The announcement follows two recent contract wins worth over \u00a340m to create more than 100 affordable homes in Salford for Salix Homes and 147 homes on a nine-acre site in Simonsway for Wythenshawe Community Housing Group.<\/p>\n<p>This latest construction contract will see Willmott Dixon build 59 new homes on two sites in East Leeds as part of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leeds.gov.uk\/\">Leeds City Council\u2019s<\/a> Housing Growth Programme which aims to contribute over 300 new council homes towards the city\u2019s overall annual target of 1,230 new affordable homes from 2019 onwards.<\/p>\n<p>The new developments, some of the first social housing the council has embarked on in the last 20 years, will be named after the streets they\u2019re located on, The Beeches and The Nevilles, with funding secured through Homes England.<\/p>\n<p>Stuart Kerr, director for Willmott Dixon: \u201cThese two schemes are hugely important projects for Leeds and Leeds City Council, so we are proud to be part of their creation. The developments will make a huge difference to their local communities by providing something that is always in high demand, housing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are very excited to now be on site, especially as these are the first social housing developments in Leeds for the last two decades.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOver the duration of The Beeches and The Nevilles scheme, we have committed to investing 10% back into the local community, equating to a monetary value of \u00a3930k. This will see us working with local school and colleges, on community projects, as well as ensuring that at least 80% of local spend and labour is within ten miles of the site.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>All homes will meet the council\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/guinness-housing-scheme\/55884\/\">Leeds Housing Standard<\/a> in terms of design quality, space and energy efficiency, and will deliver reduced running costs for residents, contributing to reductions in fuel poverty in the city.<\/p>\n<p>The affordable homes, which have been designed by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hlpdesign.com\/\">Halsall Lloyd Partnership<\/a>, are due for completion in July 2020.<\/p>\n<div class=\"mk-custom-module-container\">\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Willmott Dixon has won a \u00a39.3m construction contract with Leeds City Council to deliver affordable homes in Gipton and Osmondthorpe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[304],"tags":[666,676,572,639,570,1009],"stakeholder_rel_tag":[],"contributor_rel_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-57824","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-planning-construction-news","7":"tag-affordable-housing","8":"tag-construction","9":"tag-housebuilding","10":"tag-procurement","11":"tag-social-housing","12":"tag-willmott-dixon"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.9 (Yoast SEO v26.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Willmott Dixon to deliver social housing in Leeds<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Willmott Dixon has won a \u00a39.3m construction contract with Leeds City Council to deliver affordable homes in Gipton and Osmondthorpe\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/leeds-social-housing\/57824\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Willmott Dixon to deliver social housing in Leeds\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Willmott Dixon has won a \u00a39.3m construction contract with Leeds City Council to deliver affordable homes in Gipton and Osmondthorpe\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/leeds-social-housing\/57824\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Planning, Building &amp; 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