Seventeen new contracts worth a combined £55m have secured the "successful expansion" in the northern regions for Kier Living.

The contracts, which range in size from developments of 15 units up to schemes of over 100 units, are in various stages of completion, and are located across the north west and Yorkshire.

Although no new contracts from the north east were commercially viable to be novated from Southdale, Kier Living continues to expand its presence there, where relationships developed through the Delivery Partner Panel 2 (DPP2) programme are yielding substantial opportunities to partner on projects ranging from 100 to over 400 units in scale across the region.

Kier will be looking to replicate this DPP2 success in the north-east across the north west and Yorkshire over the next 12 to 18 months, in the next stage of its expansion, which all forms part of Kier’s ambitious plans for growth set out in the company’s Vision 2020 strategy.

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Kier has also been able to retain a wide pool of talent from the Southdale business, bringing a wealth of specialist housebuilding skills and experience to the team, which now boasts over 130 employees, and brings Kier Living’s national team to over 550.

As part of the expansion and reorganisation of the Kier Living Northern business, the Halifax team will be moving across to Kier’s regional hub in Thorpe Park in Leeds over the coming months, while retaining a presence in Warrington and North Tyneside.

John Anderson, executive director, Kier Living explains: "This is proving to be an exciting first year for the business. Having successfully formed our national residential division, Kier Living, in 2014, we have been independently rated by the Home Builders Federation as 5* by our customers, and we have accelerated our plans for growth this year, moving the business closer to our 4,000 unit a year ambition.

"Combined with the northern talent through the Southdale acquisition, we are now in a very strong position to work with clients to help solve the national housing crisis, with a capability to manage projects of all scales across the UK, leveraging our almost unique end-to-end offering from funding, planning, development, housing maintenance, FM and private market sales expertise."