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19th May 2025

Welcome Home! Families move into new affordable homes in Shurdington

New tenants and residents have moved into 10 new affordable homes in Shurdington. Working in partnership with Kendrick Homes, we have built seven social rent, and three Shared Ownership homes to help meet local housing needs. Lavinia and Alin Burz recently got the keys to one of the two-bedroom homes where they will be living […]

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7th May 2025

George plants community orchard in Lydney

Our tenant George has planted six fruit trees in Rodley Square, Lydney, to make his neighbourhood a nicer place for everyone who lives there. George came to us last year to ask if he could plant some apple trees in a grassy area that we own near his home. After checking with other people that […]

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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. 

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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 […]

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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 […]

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6th February 2023

88 more homes coming to the Forest of Dean

We have signed two new contracts with local developers Cotswold Oak Homes and David Wilson Homes, which is part of Barratt Developments, to provide 88 new affordable homes in our communities. We have worked previously with both developers. The contract with Cotswold Oak Homes will deliver four one-bedroom affordable homes at its development in Alvington, Lydney. A further […]

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7th August 2020

Two Rivers Housing sees increase in demand for affordable housing post-lockdown

Newent-based housing association Two Rivers Housing has seen a surge in demand for affordable homes across the county since lockdown restrictions eased earlier this year. The news comes as the National Housing Federation (NHF) launches its “˜Homes at the Heart of a stronger economy’ campaign, which seeks to highlight how investment in social housing can […]