The Housing Platform

For more and more people Shared Ownership is becoming one of the most accessible ways to own their own home and it might help you.

Just as it's evolving to allow more people to use it as a way onto the property ladder, it's picked up a few naysayers too, so at Platform Housing Group, we wanted to address all the aspects about it in today's market and help you understand why we believe in it so much as a solution to affording your next home.

Host Richard Hurst is joined by Hannah Harding from Platform Home Ownership, who actually has a home through Shared Ownership.

In this episode we address some of the common stigmas around the tenure with experts.

For more and more people Shared Ownership is becoming one of the most accessible ways to own their own home and it might help you.

Just as it's evolving to allow more people to use it as a way onto the property ladder, it's picked up a few naysayers too, so at Platform Housing Group, we wanted to address all the aspects about it in today's market and help you understand why we believe in it so much as a solution to affording your next home.

Host Richard Hurst is joined by Hannah Harding from Platform Home Ownership, who actually has a home through Shared Ownership.

In this episode we speak to people who took the opportunity to live in Shared Ownership homes and how it has worked out for them.

For more and more people Shared Ownership is becoming one of the most accessible ways to own their own home and it might help you.

Just as it's evolving to allow more people to use it as a way onto the property ladder, it's picked up a few naysayers too, so at Platform Housing Group, we wanted to address all the aspects about it in today's market and help you understand why we believe in it so much as a solution to affording your next home.

Host Richard Hurst is joined by Hannah Harding from Platform Home Ownership, who actually has a home through Shared Ownership.

In this episode we're going to explain what shared ownership is all about and how it works.

In this podcast we’re talking with Homes England about their strategic partnerships with housing associations and how that relationship has developed and changed over the last couple of years. 

Registered providers of affordable housing like Platform work with Homes England to provide grant funding for development to meet delivery targets set by the government.  

On this podcast, Sharon Kenny who is the Assistant Director for Delivery in Affordable Housing is joined by Platform’s Director for Land, Partnerships and Business Development, Kate Ellison. 

Rich Hurst from the communications team sat down to ask all about their roles and the relationships involved... 

In the next 20 minutes we talk about advantages of the strategic partnership, why HE are visiting more sites that are mid-build (4.44), and HE’s recent announcement around supporting Regeneration opportunities (11.56)  plus the challenges both sides see coming in the future (17.20) 

Living with Antisocial Behaviour (ASB), been a victim, been a perpetrator, or just want to know what ASB is and how it can be dealt with...our Community Safety team are here to tell you more about what they do and we also meet our new ASB Apprentice and how she is being helped by Resolve, a group who strongly advocate that community safety issues and ASB can be tackled effectively and everyone has a right to feel safe; and who also have launched the very first ASB Apprenticeship Programme nationally.

It’s the end of June and recently Inside Housing released their annual survey of the sector’s biggest builders and once again Platform have maintained a strong position near the top of the Big 50. 

Our 1,304 starts on site puts us in the Top 10 of the developers whilst the pipeline statistics for the next year see us rank 8th overall, with 1,338 homes on the horizon. 

Our 962 completions put the group 17th in the Top 50 and subscribers will be able to look a little deeper into the numbers and how it reflects on the previous year to see what story it’s telling about how social housing is dealing with the various challenges that are facing us right now. 

So we took out ten minutes with Executive Director of Growth and Development Gerraint Oakley to talk about the figures. We sat down during a tiny bit of downtime at the Housing 2023 conference in Manchester. 

In this special podcast, we’re talking about our activity for Business Continuity Week with our Risk and Compliance Business Partner, Trishna Tripuraneni.

We’re discussing how different elements of the business are affected by different events.

We’ll also cover the different themes of Business Continuity Week and how Platform goes about being prepared to keep the business functioning in unexpected circumstances.