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Blue Skies Consortium
The Longhurst Group / Nottingham Community Housing Association
Consortium consists of fifteen housing associations managing around
40,000 homes in total. Blue Skies Consortium received a funding
allocation of £56 million from the Housing Corporation for '06/08
to develop 1,347 homes - the 13th largest programme nationally. The
consortium has the capacity to deliver over 1,000 homes a year and
consists of:
- Nottingham Community Housing Association and Longhurst Group as
the joint lead partners (Longhurst Group includes Longhurst Homes,
Spire Homes, Havelok Homes and Friendship Care and Housing).
- Dales Housing, Acis Group and Axiom Housing Association as
medium sized associations with good development and management
track records.
- Lincolnshire Rural Housing Association as a local rural
organisation.
- supported housing associations Framework Housing Association,
St Matthew Housing, Nacro, Lace Housing and Nottinghamshire YMCA,
working with homeless people, clients with learning and other
difficulties, and elderly people across the spectrum of age and
needs.