News Archives - Two Rivers Housing

9th April 2025

Two Rivers Housing secures £4.56m grant to make Gloucestershire homes warmer

We have secured £4.56m from the government’s Warm Homes: Social Housing Fund to help improve the energy efficiency of hundreds of our tenant’s homes in the Forest of Dean and across Gloucestershire. Over the next three years, we will use the grant to partially fund upgrades to more than 750 of our homes. The upgrades will include energy saving fittings such as solar panels, loft insulation and improved ventilation systems to homes that have low energy ratings.

8th April 2025

New homes taking shape at Johnstone Close

Work on 20 new affordable homes is making great progress at our Johnstone Close site in Staunton. Our Chief Exec Hayley Selway, Executive Director of Homes Jonny Jones, and Group Board Chair Ted Pearce recently went along to see how the site is being transformed. They were joined by our partners from Forest of Dean […]

14th February 2025

Improving our repairs service: Bringing our team back in house

We know that the repair and maintenance of our homes is really important to our tenants and that, in the past, we’ve not always got this right. Our tenants have told us that repairs are taking too long to complete and that they struggle to get updates and information on the repairs they have booked […]

17th January 2025

Tenant Topics Winter 2024

The latest edition of our Tenant Topics magazine is out now! In this issue read how one tenant is on a mission to prove fitness really is for everyone, find out who won our tenant Garden Competition and meet our two new executive directors Jonny and Liz. Plus, where to go for help with your […]

3rd December 2024

Valuation inspections to take place in our homes

Surveyors from Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL) will be inspecting a selection of our properties over the next few weeks to assess their value. As a strong, viable organisation, it is important that we have our properties independently valued as part of our loan funding requirements. These are the properties our funders are using to secure […]

23rd October 2024

Two Rivers Housing begins regeneration of Johnstone Close site

We have started the regeneration of our Johnstone Close site in a project that will deliver 20 new affordable homes in Staunton. The former sheltered housing scheme will be transformed to provide 14 homes for social rent in an area where affordable housing is desperately needed. A further six homes will be available for Shared […]

5th July 2024

Two Rivers Housing begins new partnership with Kendrick Homes

We have formed a new relationship with property developer Kendrick Homes to deliver affordable homes in Shurdington. We have signed a contract to deliver 10 new affordable homes at Coopers Chase on Leckhampton Lane in Shurdington. The site, which is owned by West Midlands-based developer Kendrick Homes, will provide 25 new homes in total. The […]

30th May 2024

17 new affordable homes coming to Berry Hill Coleford

We’ve started work on 17 new affordable homes at our Marian’s Walk site in Berry Hill. Our new development will help provide much needed affordable homes for families in the area and will include a mix of houses, apartments, and bungalows. Four of the homes will be available for Shared Ownership, a government scheme which […]

Ted Pearce will become Chair of Two Rivers Housing in October 2024

3rd May 2024

Ted Pearce to become Chair of Two Rivers Housing in October 2024

Ted Pearce will take over as our Chair when Yvonne Leishman reaches the end of her term in October 2024. Ted has served on the Two Rivers Housing Board since 2019 and currently Chairs the Two Rivers Development Board. He has more than 40 years’ experience in the property sector and is the former Director […]