Note to editors:

Grand Union Housing Group is a leading provider of affordable housing and related services in Bedfordshire, Northamptonshire and Buckinghamshire, managing 10,000 properties. The Group is ideally placed to create and sustain neighbourhoods across Milton Keynes and the South Midlands growth area.

Grand Union Housing Group also helps people to enter the housing market through shared ownership and Key Worker homes. Currently developing more than 150 new homes per year in partnership with developers and landowners, it is committed to raising standards of delivery.

The Group has three subsidiary organisations: Aragon Housing Association, which is the largest affordable housing provider in Mid Bedfordshire; MacIntyre Housing Association, which provides specialist accommodation and support to people with learning disabilities; and South Northants Homes, which owns and manages 3,000 rented homes transferred from South Northampton District Council in March 2008.