{"id":8786,"date":"2025-10-30T14:46:30","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T14:46:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/?p=8786"},"modified":"2025-10-30T14:46:30","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T14:46:30","slug":"muse-led-habiko-reveals-debut-sites-for-590-rental-homes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/muse-led-habiko-reveals-debut-sites-for-590-rental-homes\/","title":{"rendered":"Muse-led Habiko reveals debut sites for 590 rental homes"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Muse-led public-private partnership has unveiled the first housing development sites for its \u00a31bn programme of affordable, low carbon homes.<\/p>\n

Habiko \u2013 the affordable homes partnership with Homes England and Pension Insurance Corporation \u2013 has picked Chester and Warrington for the first 590 homes in a 3,000-home development programme.<\/p>\n

At Charterhall Drive in Chester, around 350 homes are planned on land next to the city\u2019s railway station. Architect shedkm is developing designs ahead of a planning submission later this year.<\/p>\n

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The scheme forms part of Chester\u2019s 15-year regeneration strategy and will support the city\u2019s economic revival around its historic core.<\/p>\n

In Warrington, Habiko is working with AHR Architects to deliver around 240 flats between Academy Street and Mersey Street, close to the Times Square district.<\/p>\n

The partnership is setting a minimum of 75% affordable rent homes across both schemes, with the potential to reach 100%. Discounted Market Rents will be at least 20% below local market levels. All homes will be forward funded by PIC.<\/p>\n

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Lisa Gledhill, managing director of national partnerships at Muse, said Chester and Warrington were \u201cgreat places to kickstart Habiko\u2019s build programme\u201d.<\/p>\n

PIC Capital managing director Hayley Rees added: \u201cFollowing a successful launch of Habiko, announcing these first two projects emphasises our focus on purpose \u2013 delivering low carbon, low energy affordable homes for rent at pace.\u201d<\/p>\n

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from Construction Enquirer https:\/\/ift.tt\/D1bpL6W<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A Muse-led public-private partnership has unveiled the first housing development sites for its \u00a31bn programme of affordable, low carbon homes. Habiko \u2013 the affordable homes partnership with Homes England and Pension Insurance Corporation \u2013 has picked Chester and Warrington for the first 590 homes in a 3,000-home development programme. At Charterhall Drive in Chester, around […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":150,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-8786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-construction-enquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8786"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8787,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8786\/revisions\/8787"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}