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Liverpool council has appointed a consortium of Redrow Homes, Liverpool Mutual Housing (LMA) and Willmott Dixon as its official delivery partners for a scheme to build or refurbish 2,500 homes over the next five years.

Under the 黑洞社区 Our Future agreement, 1,500 new homes will be constructed, and 1,000 will be refurbished by 2019, with an option to extend the programme for a further five years to deliver more new build and refurbishments.

Liverpool said the partners would carry out a 鈥渃omprehensive review鈥� of the housing market across the city to identify development and refurbishment opportunities and the need to complement other regeneration projects.

The city council said it would sell surplus land to the partnership for development and bring land and investment together 鈥渋n a planned way鈥� with capital receipts from sales reinvested back into the partnership.

Under the agreement, Redrow will develop a range of executive housing and will identify and acquire land to enhance the council鈥檚 own development sites, while Willmott Dixon will build new affordable properties for housing association LMA and work on the refurbishment projects.

Liverpool elected mayor Joe Anderson said two full delivery programmes for the new-build and refurbishment work would be agreed by the partnership and recommended to the authority鈥檚 cabinet in September.

Anderson said the agreement would 鈥渦nlock new investment opportunities鈥� and allow resources to be pooled.

Steve Greenhalgh, Redrow鈥檚 managing director for Lancashire, said the city-wide approach was a good example of 鈥渏oined-up thinking鈥�.

鈥淲e鈥檙e particularly pleased that Redrow鈥檚 investment in private-sale homes will help stimulate the creation of affordable housing, including the refurbishment of empty housing stock,鈥� he said.

Liverpool added that the refurbishment work was expected to particularly target areas where there were large volumes of empty houses.

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