Consortium Partners
 Harvest Housing Group set up the Grove Village consortium, in which it owns a 25.5% share. Harvest is a group of diverse housing associations and companies, which create flexible solutions for a wide variety of people and businesses. As a partner of first choice Harvest works with its partners to deliver local solutions, which achieve excellence in neighbourhoods, housing, property and regeneration.
Through its subsidiary, Manchester & District Housing Association, it has a 30-year contract with Manchester City Council to provide a housing and neighbourhood management service on the estate. Manchester & District’s role is to deliver the “Managed Village” concept which involves collecting rents, organising repairs, providing a warden and caretaker service and running a one-stop-shop for enquiries.
 The MJ Gleeson Group is well recognised nationally for its significant role in inner-city regeneration and will own a 49% equity stake in the Grove Village Consortium. The new build programme by Gleeson Homes is underway and properties ranging from apartments to 2,3 and 4 bedroom homes, many with gardens, have been released for sale. Innovation and new technologies in the construction process will benefit both the people who live in Grove Village and the environment that surrounds them. Gleeson Building is carrying out all of the refurbishment and demolition work at Grove Village. Demolition is now complete and the majority of refurbishment work is due to finish in 2006.
Gleeson’s building services company Powerminster provides a range of services to the housing sector both as sub-contractors and directly to clients. At Grove Village, Powerminster’s specialist installation team is the sub-contractor delivering gas, plumbing, heating, electrical, kitchen and bathroom installations. Our Propertycare team is working with Manchester and District Housing Association to provide a range of services to tenants. Maintenance services are also available for local homeowners.
 Nationwide Building Society is lending the capital required for all the improvements on the estate. It's loan facility to the Grove Village Consortium, in which it also owns a 25.5% share, will be serviced by the PFI credit, which the ODPM will pay to Manchester City Council over the next 30 years with additional contributions from the council itself.
 Manchester City Council chose PFI as the most suitable option to ensure all homes on the estate reached the Decent Homes Standard by 2010. Their vision for an improved Ardwick has been reflected in the changes which are now being developed.
The City Council continues to own the social housing on the estate, so they remain tenants’ landlord. As a result, they have a vital interest in service delivery which is monitored by a panel made up of tenants and residents, local ward councillors and members of the City Council’s Housing Department. |
