100th affordable home for Dérive

Salford City Council’s housing company, Dérive, has collected the keys to its 100th affordable home for local people.

The family house is one of 42 affordable homes built at Hilton Lane, Walkden and sits alongside new homes already built in Charlestown, Irlam, Duchy and Ordsall. Works are nearly complete to provide a further 131 affordable homes at Clifton Green in Pendlebury, Kara Street in Langworthy and Ryall Avenue in Ordsall. Construction of 275 homes in Weaste, Charlestown and Little Hulton is also underway.

Councillor Tracy Kelly, a director at Dérive and Statutory Deputy City Mayor and Lead Member for Housing, Property and Regeneration, said: “We set up Dérive in 2017 to provide truly affordable homes for Salford people. These range from one and two bedroomed apartments to two to five bedroomed houses. They also include wheelchair accessible homes to provide a mix to meet local need.”

Councillor John Merry also a director at Dérive added: “We also have a development pipeline of 589 affordable homes. It is very exciting that our initial plans are now coming to life as we create high quality affordable homes for our city.”