Our Responsibilities
Rural Areas
Firebird Homes continues to invest to enable and sustain rural communities.
Our Rural Aims: - The aim at Firebird Homes’ is to be on a sure and steadfast course with various stakeholders to empower and create vibrant communities that will be genuinely sustainable. We share our vision with the Homes & Communities Agency, Local Authorities and adopt the principles and guidelines of the Tenant Services Authority and the Rural Advisory Board. Our overall aim is to assist to increase the regions capacity to deliver affordable rural housing and to work with Local Authorities and Private land/property owners to release suitable land or buildings for the creation of affordable homes. We ensure to seek efficient ways of improving the effectiveness of delivering affordable housing of mixed tenure in all areas.
In partnership we will carry out research to build our collective knowledge of issues affecting each specific rural community’s needs. We strive to establish innovative developments to secure affordable housing through Community Land Trusts, on planning exception sites, and suitable surplus public and or private sector land. By building on the best methods pioneered with our partners, our objectives are to invest and provide affordable housing to rent or buy for local people which in turn will help to secure the future of our rural villages and market towns.
Our Rural Developments:- Together with our partners we have been successfully Making Homes Affordable in the rural areas of Cottingley, Micklethwaite, Haworth, Cullingworth, and Cowling and are currently in the pipeline of sensitively developing further homes in the rural areas of Steeton, Cowling, Cullingworth, Howarth and the villages of Thornton and Queensbury.
