£55m boost for housing projects

A SOCIAL housing provider has secured £55m to invest in Rochdale regeneration projects.

- BY GEORGE LYTHGOE

Sarah Lavender, senior relationship manager at Principality; Sandra Coleing, RBH executive director of corporate services; Simon Mellor, RBH executive director of finance and development; Amanda Newton, RBH chief executive; Kevin Brady, chair

Rochdale Boroughwide Housing (RBH) has been on a funding freeze from the government ever since it was hit with a regulatory notice in December 2022.

Last year a government regulator found RBH made improvements and upgraded standards. This came in the wake of an inquest into the tragic death of toddler Awaab Ishak, who died in 2020 due to mould exposure in an RBH flat on the Freehold estate.

The Regulator of Social Housing credited RBH with undertaking a thorough and detailed review of its systems and processes to understand and learn from Awaab’s death.