Our vision is to partner with others to provide better solutions, amplify our impact and be more influential. We’ll do this by proactively partnering with the communities and stakeholders we support, understanding, predicting and developing solutions to influence change and meet evolving needs.
Launching our Development Strategy
We believe that having a safe, affordable and quality home is the foundation of a good life, no matter who you are or where you live.
We’re building on the successful legacies of Longhurst Group and Grand Union to increase our capacity and adopt the most efficient aspects of each organisation as we aim to build 1,000 new affordable homes each year.
To help us achieve this, we launched our Development and Sales Strategy.
This outlines how we’ll hit our target, reveals the core geographical areas we’re targeting for development, and announces some of our specification enhancements.
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Additional Homes England Funding
In September 2025, we were awarded nearly £20 million of extra funding by Homes England to help us build more homes.
This will allow us to build an extra 187 homes.
Of this money, more than £3 million will go to our delivery partner LACE Housing, which will build 27 of the extra homes as supported housing for older people.
extra funding was awarded by Homes England to help us build more homes
A record year of building
We delivered 909 new affordable homes last year.
This is the most successful performance we’ve had since becoming Amplius and has led to around 2,700 people moving into a new home.
Throughout the year, we completed 282 Shared Ownership sales, generating more than £27 million of income.
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Development partnerships
We continue to work in close partnership with Allison Homes on several sites to deliver hundreds of new affordable homes across our region.
These include:
Completed developments
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Other key developments
Work continued on various other key developments, including in Ampthill, where we’re demolishing and redeveloping Katherine’s House, the site of our former office, and Katherine’s Gardens, an independent living scheme in Ampthill.
In their place, 39 one and two-bedroom homes for people over 55 will be built on the site.
We’ve also started on site at Thorney Road in Newborough, near Peterborough, where we’ll deliver 30 new homes.
Good progress has also been made at Flitwick Road in Westoning, where we’re providing 69 new homes, while work is well underway on 133 new homes we’re building as part of Wixams 3.2.
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Looking ahead
We’re committed to our target of building 1,000 new homes a year. While this is challenging, we’ll do everything we can to achieve it.
During the year, we’ve worked on a submission as part of the Social and Affordable Homes Programme, which will support the development of 2,500 homes over the next five years.
We hope to build more than 950 homes in 2026-2027, and 1,039 the following year.
We’ll build upon our existing partnerships and contacts and forge new relationships to help us secure new sites and agreements as we aim to achieve our vision and provide the safe and quality homes our customers deserve.
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Political engagement
To ensure we can influence political policy direction and decision-making, we’re improving our engagement with key stakeholders, including local authorities and MPs.
By doing so, we can make sure Amplius is a force for good in the sector and enhance the impact we can have in the regions we serve.
Improved political engagement will also enhance our reputation with these key stakeholders, and give us a voice which is respected, valued and listened to locally and in Westminster.
In the last year, we’ve had many meetings with representatives from across the political divide, including:
Our commitment to carers
We helped form a brand new All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) to support parents facing every family’s worst nightmare has been formally set up following an inaugural meeting in Parliament.
The Group has been inspired by the Harry’s Pledge campaign to support carers of which Amplius is a founding member. It’s called the ‘All-Party Parliamentary Group on Emotional Support for Parent Carers of Seriously Ill and Disabled Children’, and its primary aim is to ensure that every parent of a child with a severe life-limiting or life-threatening condition has access to emotional support.
Matt Bishop, Labour MP for Forest of Dean, was elected to chair the Group. He has passionately led the charge to launch the Group after hearing more about the plight of parent carers during an event at the Labour Party Conference in September.
He said: “Too many parent carers are left to cope alone at the moment their world changes forever.
“This APPG will ensure their voices are heard and turned into real action, and I am proud to stand with Harry’s Pals to help drive this meaningful change.”
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Julie Doyle, Chief Executive, said: “Forming the APPG represents a real milestone moment for the Harry’s Pledge campaign and I’m so proud of the leading role that Amplius has played.
“This focus on parent carers is just one of the four commitments set out in the Pledge as we look to enhance accessibility across the housing sector and ensure greater support and recognition for people who provide care and those they care for.”
Other members of the Group include Baroness Sue Gray, Shockat Adam, Independent MP for Leicester South, Stuart Andrew, Conservative MP for Daventry, Alison Bennett, Liberal Democrat MP for Mid Sussex.
Creating sustainable homes
Throughout the year, we’ve continued our work to lower our carbon footprint, move towards net zero and improve the energy efficiency of our homes.
This ties in with the imminent launch of our new Sustainability Strategy, which is due for publication early in the 2026/27 financial year.
The strategy will showcase how sustainability is at the forefront of everything the organisation does and contains key targets between now and 2030.
As part of this vision, we’re investing more than £41 million in around 2,200 of our existing homes.
The work is being done as part of the latest wave of the Warm Homes: Social Housing Fund project, in which we’ve match-funded more than £20 million of government funding.
Work got underway in August, and has seen us increasing the Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) ratings of homes in Cambridgeshire, Northamptonshire, Bedfordshire and Lincolnshire to at least an EPC Band C.
To do this, we’ve been installing measures including internal, external and cavity wall insulation, loft insulation, new doors and windows, solar PV and low carbon heating upgrades.
In the last year, as part of wave three of the project, we booked and completed 1,038 retrofit assessments and started work on 713 homes, with 427 properties being completed as of the end of March 2026.
At the end of the financial year, almost 26,000 of our homes were rated EPC C and above, leading to cost savings of more than £152,000 for our customers.
This has also resulted in 869 tCO2 per year of Carbon savings.
Key results
retrofit assessments completed
Homes that have had work started
Homes completed in Wave 3 of Warm Homes: Social Housing Fund
Total savings for customers
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Engaging with our customers
Working with our customers is an important part of the Warm Homes: Social Housing Fund project.
We held an engagement event in Rushden in May to allow customers to meet our contractors, find out more about the work we wanted to do in their homes and discover the benefits this would bring.
One customer who attended was Kevin, who was due to see his home undergo several improvements, including a new front door, back door, new windows and external wall insulation:
He said: “The event was definitely useful, especially getting to talk to the contractors who went through everything with me.
“The kids enjoyed it too and were talking about it all day. They’re looking forward to having a new green front door!”
"The event was definitely useful, especially getting to talk to the contractors who went through everything with me."
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Sector-leading project
The work we’ve been doing in Rushden as part of the Warm Homes: Social Housing Fund project was visited by stakeholders and partner organisations earlier this year.
Colleagues from our partners, including the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ), Salix, Lovell, Henman Dunn and Aico, visited our show home to see the work being done to improve the energy efficiency of our homes.
During the visit, they listened to presentations from Amplius colleagues, as well as technical information about the work being done by our contractors.
This was followed by a walk around various streets where dozens of homes are being improved, before speaking with customers who have benefited from the project.
We’ve also contributed to various sector conferences, talks and case studies as a leading example of retrofit projects done well.
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Social value impact
As part of our agreements with contractors, we continue to generate exceptional social value impact.
From apprenticeships to employability support, work experience placements to interview practice and investing in community projects, our contractors have been busy giving back to the community.
Our Warm Homes: Social Housing Fund contract with Morgan Sindall has directly led to more than £1.6 million in social value benefit. This includes the effect social value initiatives have on wellbeing and the local economic wealth they create.
In social value benefit from Our Warm Homes: Social Housing Fund contract with Morgan Sindall
Healthy places and communities partnership
We expanded our health and housing partnership with bpha, Peabody and Public Health during the year. The new, wider partnership is working with BeActive to encourage and enable residents to live healthier and more active lives.
The Healthy Places and Communities partnership brings fresh resources and programmes to increase physical activity and improve health equity in local communities.
As part of the rollout of the partnership, Amplius appointed Liz Parsons as Programme Director.
Residents will benefit from the wider focus of the partnership, the joining up of health and wellbeing offers with physical activity and the chance to be more active.
Our GrandActive project uses sport and fitness activities to promote health and wellbeing among those aged between eight and 25 in Bedforshire.
- 306 local residents took part in Grand Active sessions
- 141 residents helped through the Healthy Places and Communities partnership
Sport England research shows that in children and young people, there is a strong connection between physical activity and happiness. It also highlights that children facing the greatest health inequalities are the least likely to be active, so such a project is vital in helping foster these improvements.
We’re going to use the knowledge gained from these programmes to develop a series of test, learn and grow projects that will help broaden and further the range of physical activity and health opportunities that are available for residents.