Annual Report 2016 | Page 10

accordgroup.org.uk 03/16 04/16 A £6 billion plan to turn the Black Country into Britain’s biggest ‘garden city’ by building 45,000 homes was unveiled. Accord’s Chief Executive Chris Handy represented the Black Country LEP in the unveiling of the plan. LoCaL Homes secured a £500,000 contract to manufacture a four-home terrace of low carbon housing for Halton Housing Trust in Runcorn. It is the first time in Halton’s history that homes the will be built in-house using the Group’s property services team instead of an external contractor. 05/16 06/16 More than 500 sites identified for the forecasted 45,000 news homes to be built as part of the Black Country Garden City to build new homes in Wolverhampton, Dudley, Sandwell and Walsall. 8 Accord Group Riverside Housing Co-operative, part of Redditch Cooperative Homes, won the coveted ‘‘Inspiring Co-operative of the Year’’ at the UK’s annual Co-operative of the Year awards in Wakefield