Press releases

ONE OF THE COUNTRY’S leading spinal injury charities, Aspire, is a step closer to reaching its target of 100 accessible homes thanks to the Vale of Aylesbury Housing Trust. At a private event at the Speaker’s House on Monday (16 April) the Trust, a registered social landord, announced it was providing the spinal injury charity [...] Full story »

A PROJECT THAT WILL SEE work carried out on an historically significant building in Quainton is the recipient of a landmark grant from the Aylesbury Vale Community Chest fund. At its latest meeting, the Community Chest grants panel awarded the 100th project grant to the Buckinghamshire Railway Centre, which has one of the largest collections of locomotives, [...] Full story »

AYLEBURY VALE’S LARGEST social housing provider welcomes the Supreme Court’s decision (23 March 2012) to dismiss the UK government’s appeal against two previous court rulings that it acted unlawfully in cutting solar subsidies retrospectively in December. The decision brings a definitive end to the uncertainty surrounding feed-in tariffs which began last year when the government [...] Full story »

Residents in Wing were able to view the remodelled bungalows at Wantage Crescent today (Friday 16 March) when contractors Apollo held an ‘open house’ event. Nine bungalows at the Supported Housing Scheme have had extensive internal works to change the studio properties into more practical one bedroom homes with wet room. The bungalows, along with [...] Full story »

AYLESBURY VALE’S LARGEST social landlord has confirmed an average annual rent increase for its tenants of 6.76%. The rise is effective from 2 April 2012 and follows the application of the Government’s rent restructuring policy. Individual rent notification letters to the Trust’s 7,000 plus tenants are currently being issued. Linda Foster, Finance Director for the Vale of Aylesbury Housing Trust, said: “Along with all other social landlords [...] Full story »

The Vale of Aylesbury Housing Trust has been named as one of the Times Best Companies Accreditation ‘Ones to Watch’ 2012. The Trust, a not-for-profit Registered Social Landlord providing affordable homes in Aylesbury Vale, was assessed through the Times Best Companies’ unique employee evaluation, which identifies workplace performance and best practice according to eight key [...] Full story »

  The Chartered Institute of Housing (CIH) has confirmed that the Trust is one of their champions for change for the South Eastern region. The Trust takes this significant role along with Thrive Homes of Watford.   Housing Associations like the Trust, are regulated by the Tenant Services Authority (TSA), but this will cease on 31 [...] Full story »

Carol Reeves is settling in to her bright new flat, with its spacious, open plan kitchen and living room, accessible wet room and garden views. Carol is the first resident of the Trust’s new extra care unit at Silverdale, Willow House, which was built on brown-field land between Wharton and Westbury Houses at the supported [...] Full story »

People in Aylesbury and the surrounding areas are now one step closer to getting on the property ladder with the release of two Shared Ownership properties in Stone. The two properties are the first built by the Vale of Aylesbury Housing Trust under its new Shared Ownership programme, which has been established to make quality [...] Full story »

IS UNIVERSITY THE ONLY WAY TO GET AHEAD? – ‘NO!’ says Dean Gill, Director of Property and Development at the Vale of Aylesbury Housing Trust, who is celebrating National Apprenticeship Week this week (6-10 February 2012). Dean, who was instrumental in launching the Trust’s first ever apprenticeship programme in 2011, explains: ‘I can confidently say [...] Full story »