Sunday, 14 October 2012

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”.

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