We’ve been providing affordable housing since 1994, following an initial stock transfer of 2,896 homes from Mid Beds District Council on 3 October that year. Known then as Mid Beds Housing Association, we completed our first development scheme in Marston Moretaine the following year and moved into our Ampthill office in 1996. In 1999 we changed our name to Aragon…
Building new homes in Milton Keynes
Grand Union Housing Group has agreed a deal with Milton Keynes Development Partnership (MKDP) to develop 34 homes at Bradwell Common in Milton Keynes. Planning has been submitted for the properties on the one acre site at Hampstead Gate with a proposed start on site in spring 2020 and completion around Easter 2021. MKDP selected Grand Union as their preferred…
Local dementia scheme residents escape to a virtual world
Grand Union Housing Group is using virtual reality (VR) to transport residents living in a specialist dementia care scheme in Bletchley to another world, all from the safety of their armchair. The residents at Flowers House, which is run in partnership with Milton Keynes Council, look forward to their six-weekly sessions with Escape2VR, when they can put on the headset…
Hong Kong housing delegation visits Milton Keynes
Local housing provider, Grand Union Housing Group, was pleased to host a visit to Milton Keynes recently by a delegation of housing professionals from Hong Kong who were visiting the UK on a fact-finding trip to learn more about housing in this country. The four housing managers and two surveyors from the Hong Kong Housing Department met the Mayor of…
Using garages for storage
We are aware that some of our garages are used for storage. Please note that if you do use a garage for storage, this is entirely at your own risk and you are responsible for having any appropriate insurance cover in place. We are unable to take any responsibility for the loss of, or damage to, any items stored in…
Kitchen and bathroom lifespans
Customers often ask when their kitchens or bathrooms are going to be replaced. We expect our kitchens to last 25 years before requiring replacement and our bathrooms 40 years. It may sound like a long time, but the majority of our kitchens and bathrooms will reach that before needing replacement. Of course if something is in a really bad state…
Grand Union appoints new Chair
We are delighted to announce that James Macmillan has been appointed as Grand Union’s new Board Chair. He will be replacing Harry Walker who successfully guided Grand Union through unification in October 2018 and who leaves his post this September following nine years as a Board member. James, who is no stranger to Grand Union having been an independent member…
GUHG appoints new Director of Finance
Grand Union Housing Group (GUHG), has appointed Mona Shah as their new Group Director of Finance. Mona, who is currently Finance Director at Sovereign Housing Group, will be joining Grand Union in the New Year, replacing current Director of Finance, Anna Simpson who is moving on to Midland Heart. She said: “I am absolutely delighted to be joining Grand Union…
Unification – It’s official!
As of today, our unification is official! Aragon Housing Association, Rockingham Forest Housing and South Northants Homes have all come together and are now known as Grand Union Housing Group – a charitable housing provider regulated by the Regulator for Social Housing. Over the past ten years, all of these organisations have been working closely together but by creating a single,…
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