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FHM strenghen public sector business portfolio
An understanding of the needs of its public sector clients has
helped Frank Haslam Milan (FHM), a Keepmoat company, develop and
innovate new products and services, securing its continued success
in the North East region.
The company has stenghtened its public sector business portfolio
by securing ten new business wins and is continuing to grow in the
North East after securing these back-to-back wins - estimated to be
worth more than £50 million.
These new partnerships will see FHM North East:
- Build new affordable homes for rent and sale with Your Homes
Newcastle - the housing organisation that manages the city's
council housing . The work covers general needs and supported
housing. The contract is for four years and will see hundreds of
new homes being built.
- Secure a scheme with Housing Hartlepool and Hartlepool Borough
Council to build over 100 new homes at Belle Vue in Hartlepool,
with the potential for more homes in the future.
- Work with housing organisations across the region after being
selected to join the North East Procurement Framework for the next
four years. Works include, kitchen and bathroom replacements,
heating renewals, rewires, and roof replacements.
- Carry out a new build scheme for Gateshead Housing Company
which will consist of 148 units . This will include mixed tenure
of social properties and properties for open market sale.
- Develop three schemes in South Tyneside which have received
funding to develop new bunglaows. Also in South Tyneside we have
been selected as the preferred partner for the development of
Rackly Way in Whitburn - a development of sheltered housing,
bungalows and family homes for affordable sale.
- Work with Gateshead Metropolitan Borough Council on the
development of 44 Extra Care units and six bunglaows at Harlow
Green in Gateshead.
- Work on a project to regenerate the Hendon area in Sunderland.
The "Transforming Hendon" work includes repairing or
renewing windows, doors, walls, roofs, gutters, chimney stacks,
street signs, fences and gates.
- Join forces with Your Homes Newcastle to refurbish a
children's home in the city.
- Selected by Affinity Sutton, a national housing group that owns
and manages 53,000 homes, to join its contractor framework to carry
out refurbishment work.
- Selected as a national framework provider to build affordable
new homes for the Guiness Trust, a national provider of social
housing.
FHM won the contracts after demonstrating its ability to deliver
high quality, good value products and services, and its sensitive
approach to working with local communities.
The new wins help to strengthen FHM's already impressive
track record within the region and demonstrates their commitment of
securing long term employment for local people.
The company has established links with organisations throughout
the North East by working in partnership to develop training and
apprenticeship schemes and will continue to invest money and
resources into local communities by supporting a number of schemes
and initiatives.
David Mellor, Managing Director of FHM North East, said:
"We are delighted to have been awarded these contracts which
will deliver a significant boost to the provision and refurbishment
of social housing in the North East.
"We are now looking forward to working with these new and
existing clients to deliver this work.
"We will continue to develop new and innovative ways of
delivering new products and services to ensure we can offer our
exisitng and new partners long term, viable housing
solutions".
