Trafford Housing Trust was a

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based in

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. It was acquired by L&Q in 2019. It owned and managed about 9,000 properties. It also provided care and support for disabled people and ran

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and extra-care homes. It owned Laurus Homes, which still builds affordable homes for sale. It was created by a transfer of housing stock from

Trafford Council Trafford Council is the local authority of the Metropolitan Borough of Trafford in Greater Manchester, England. It is a metropolitan district council, one of ten in Greater Manchester and one of 36 in the metropolitan counties of England, and pr ...

in 2005.

Commercial details

Matthew Gardiner is the chief executive. Turnover for 2016/7 was £54.4 million, with an operating surplus of £12.4 million. In 2017 it completed a refinancing package of £275 million from

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, the Pension Insurance Corporation and the

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. It also has funding from the Greater Manchester Housing Investment Fund. It has set up a

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with

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to build homes in

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next to

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. About 500 will be sold and 74 will be available for shared ownership or affordable rent. In 2019, L&Q acquired THT.

Community work

It set up the award-winning Limelight centre in

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in 2017. In 2018 it was part of a scheme with Great Places Housing Group,

, and Irwell Valley Homes to turn unoccupied office space into night shelters for homeless people and donated £5,000 for essential items.

References

{{reflist Organisations based in Trafford Housing associations based in England