Warwick North West CEO Greg Johnson (left) and Managing Director Phil McDonald (right) with Liverpool City Region Mayor Steve Rotheram (centre).
Liverpool-based fabricator Warwick North West has welcomed the Liverpool City Region Mayor’s newly announced housing ambitions, describing the plans as a vital step towards tackling housing need while creating long-term opportunities for regional manufacturers and suppliers.
The £2bn housing pipeline, unveiled by Mayor Steve Rotheram, sets out proposals to deliver more than 63,000 new homes across the city region, including a significant focus on social and affordable housing.
For Warwick North West, which manufactures windows and doors for residential and social housing projects, the announcement reflects both a social priority and a commercial opportunity.
“As a Liverpool business, this is exactly the kind of joined-up thinking our region needs,” said CEO Greg Johnson. “Housing delivery at this scale has the potential to transform communities, but it also underlines the importance of a strong, local supply chain that can support housing associations and developers with quality, compliant products.”
With Warwick North West based in Bootle in the Metropolitan Borough of Sefton, Greg highlighted the particular significance of the proposals for his local area. “The pipeline identifies 48 sites and 7,723 units in Sefton alone, which is hugely encouraging for the borough and for businesses like ours that already work closely with social housing providers.”
Greg also believes that a renewed focus on social housing can unlock benefits well beyond the construction phase.
“Fabricators are critical to delivering homes that are safe, sustainable and built to last,” he added. “And a clear pipeline gives confidence to invest in everything from people to machinery and innovation. That’s how you build capacity across the supply chain, not just units on the ground.”
“Liverpool has always been a city that gets things done when there’s a shared ambition. We fully support this move and look forward to playing our part in delivering homes that genuinely serve the communities of the city region, now and for generations to come.”
For more information on Warwick North West, visit www.warwicknorthwest.co.uk or call 0151 933 3030.