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Social HomeBuy

Volume 481: debated on Tuesday 28 October 2008

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government pursuant to the answer to the hon. Member for Welwyn, Hatfield of 15 September 2008, Official Report, column 2086W, on housing: low incomes, (1) which local authorities and housing associations offer the scheme; and which localities the housing associations cover; (230033)

(2) which (a) local authorities and (b) housing associations in London offer Social Homebuy to their tenants.

The following local authorities offer the voluntary Social HomeBuy scheme to their tenants: London Boroughs of Camden, Croydon, Hammersmith and Fulham, Islington, Lambeth, Southwark and Wandsworth; and Fareham, Harlow and Waveney District Councils.

68 housing associations also offer the scheme to their tenants in all nine regions, including in 25 of the 33 London boroughs. The following table shows the housing associations by regions and local authorities.

List of Housing Associations offering Social HomeBuy by local authorities

Region

Local authority

Housing association

East Midlands

Ashfield

East Midlands

Gedling

Accent Nene Ltd.

Leicester

Places for People

Lincoln

Sanctuary

North West Leicestershire

East Midlands

Northampton

Servite

Nottingham City

Guinness Trust

Wellingborough

Places for People

Eastern

Basildon

Guinness Trust

Padington Churches

South Anglia

Bedford

Aldwyck

Broadland

Wherry

Cambridge

Wherry

Colchester

Paddington Churches

Dacorum

Hightown

East Cambridgeshire

Sanctuary

East Hertfordshire

Aldwyck

South Anglia

Harlow

East Thames Group

Hertsmere

Aldwyck

Ipswich

Wherry

Kings Lynn and West Norfolk

Wherry

Luton

South Anglia

North Hertfordshire

Paddington Churches

Peterborough

Accent Nene Ltd.

South Norfolk

Wherry

Southend-on-Sea

Estuary

Thurrock

Southern Housing Group Ltd.

London

Barking and Dagenham

East Thames Group

Peabody Trust

Bexley

Downland

Gallions

Brent

Metropolitan Housing Trust

Paddington Churches

Bromley

Broomleigh

Camden

Community

Croydon

Moat House

Peabody Trust

Presentation

Ealing

Acton

ASRA Greater London

Catalyst Housing Group Ltd

Greenwich

Gallions

Peabody Trust

Hackney

Circle 33

Family Mosaic Housing

Guinness Trust

Hammersmith and Fulham

Notting Hill

Haringey

Circle 33

Peabody Trust

Presentation

Harrow

Metropolitan Housing Trust

Havering

East Thames Group

Hillingdon

Metropolitan Housing Trust

Peabody Trust

Hounslow

Places for People

Islington

Circle 33

Family Mosaic Housing

Kensington and Chelsea

Notting Hill

Octavia Housing

Lambeth

Peabody Trust

Presentation

Lewisham

London and Quadrant Housing Trust

Newham

Asra Greater London

East Thames Group

Southern Housing Group Ltd

Redbridge

East Thames Group

Southwark

Family Mosaic Housing

Southern Housing Group Ltd

Tower Hamlets

East Thames Group

Newlon

Southern Housing Group Ltd

Waltham Forest

Circle 33

East Thames Group

Family Mosaic Housing

Wandsworth

London and Quadrant Housing Trust

Blyth Valley

Places for People

Chester-Le-Street

Three Rivers

Darlington

Three Rivers

Derwentside

Three Rivers

Easington

Three Rivers

Gateshead

Three Rivers

Hartlepool

Housing Hartlepool

Three Rivers

Middlesbrough

William Sutton Trust

Newcastle Upon Tyne

Guinness Trust

Nomad

North Tyneside

Nomad

Redcar and Cleveland

Three Rivers

Sedgefield

Three Rivers

South Tyneside

Three Rivers

William Sutton Trust

Sunderland

Home Group Limited

Three Rivers

Teesdale

Three Rivers

Wear Valley

Three Rivers

North West

Allerdale

Home Group Limited

Barrow-In-Furness

Accent Corporate Services

Blackburn

Places for People

Burnley

Accent Corporate Services Places For People

Chorley

Places For People

Copeland

Home Group Limited

Crewe and Nantwich

Sanctuary

Hyndburn

Places For People

Knowsley

Knowsley Housing Trust

Liverpool

CDS Housing

Contour

Regenda

Riverside

Manchester

Contour

Guinness Trust

Manchester Methodist

Places For People

Oldham

Manchester Methodist

Regenda

Preston

Places For People

Rossendale

Places For People

Sefton

Greater Hornby

Servite

St. Helens

Helena

Tameside

Regenda

Wirral

Regenda

South East

Arun

Servite

Ashford

Moat Homes

Southern Housing Group Ltd.

Aylesbury Vale

Hightown

Basingstoke and Deane

Sentinel Housing Association Ltd.

Brighton and Hove

Southern Housing Group Ltd.

Canterbury

Sanctuary

Cherwell

Catalyst Housing Group Ltd.

Crawley

Guinness Trust

East Hampshire

Swaythling

Eastbourne

Places For People

Milton Keynes

Aldwyck

New Forest

Swaythling

Reading

Thames Valley

Southampton

Swaythling

Test Valley

Aster

Testway

Tunbridge Wells

Town & Country Housing

Wealden

Home Group Limited

West Berkshire

Sovereign

Windsor and Maidenhead

Swaythling

Worthing

Southern Housing Group Ltd.

South West

Bath and North East Somerset

Somer Community

Western Challenge

Bournemouth

Western Challenge

Bristol

Knightstone

Places For People

Bristol

Sovereign

Cheltenham

Sanctuary

South West

Christchurch

Western Challenge

Exeter

Sovereign

Western Challenge

Gloucester

Aster

Mendip

Western Challenge

North Cornwall

Western Challenge

North Dorset

Western Challenge

North Wiltshire

Western Challenge

Plymouth

Devon & Cornwall

Guinness Trust

Sovereign

Western Challenge

Poole

Swaythling

Western Challenge

Salisbury

Swaythling

South Gloucestershire

Western Challenge

Swindon

Western Challenge

Tewkesbury

Evesham & Pershore

West Midlands

Birmingham

Bromford

Mercian

Midland Heart

Servite

West Mercia

Coventry

Guinness Trust

Lichfield

Mercian

Malvern Hills

Elgar

Sandwell

Accord

Stoke-on-Trent

Empowering People

Sanctuary

The Wrekin

Wrekin Housing Trust

Wolverhampton

Bromford

Worcester City

West Mercia

Wychavon

Evesham & Pershore

Spa Housing Association

Yorkshire and Humberside

Bradford

Manningham

Places For People

William Sutton Trust

Kingston Upon Hull

Places For People

William Sutton Trust

Leeds

William Sutton Trust

Sheffield

Places For People

York

Joseph Rowntree Housing Trust