THE DEMAND FOR SOCIAL HOUSING HAS ‘NEVER BEEN GREATER’ SAYS SEAN KEYES, MANAGING DIRECTOR OF SUTCLIFFE, CIVIL AND STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING FIRM

Working and building on over £1 billion pounds worth of homes throughout Merseyside over the last 35 years, Sutcliffe is no stranger to providing the very best civil and structural engineering services on social housing projects.

With a responsibility to continue to build affordable homes throughout the Liverpool City Region and beyond, having worked on a number of schemes that provide much-needed new homes for families in their local communities, Sutcliffe is playing its own small part in easing the housing crisis throughout the UK.

The latest news that 50 housing associations will receive £179m worth of funding to retrofit their homes under wave one of the Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund is also well received in our sector, and thankfully from what the company is seeing throughout the Liverpool City Region, social housing projects are on the rise. In recent years, Sutcliffe has personally worked on over 7,600 (and counting) homes, including houses, low storey apartments and extra care facilities and with a true social conscience, the company is continuing to consider the environment and its green credentials on every site that it works upon.

Discussing social housing solutions and how he sees the construction sector evolving and meeting the needs of its clients throughout the months and years to come, Sutcliffe’s managing director Sean Keyes believes the demand for social housing has never been greater.

“Having worked on relatively small scale social housing units, right up to massive hundred million pound projects, Sutcliffe is continuing to meet the demand for social housing and thankfully over the years, I have seen the standard of social housing increase, with the environment at the forefront of many building projects now.

“Social housing developers are considerably ethical in their developments, considering the likes of flooding and wastage throughout their build, meaning they take a much more considered view when building. The social housing market is very buoyant at the moment and with a high quality of work, I predict the demand for these properties to stay high, especially as we move closer towards meeting the net zero agenda in 2030.”