Social housing provider moves into loft
Social housing provider Riverside, which
looks after Sandwell Council properties has recently unveiled its plans
to ease overcrowding.
Riverside has developed two bedroom loft
conversions for council house properties in a bid to ease overcrowding and
provide homes suitable for larger families.
The council aims to complete six or seven
similar conversions each year.
Becke Livesey from national loft conversion
company Econoloft said:
“There is no reason why council and housing association homes cannot
have loft conversions.
“There is a national shortage of large family
homes in the social housing sector and expanding into the loft to create an
additional one or two bedrooms would be a cost effective use of their funds.
“It would be good to see more social housing
providers follow this example”.
