Housing For All
The Housing for All programme provides a choice to live in a development with people from different political, religious and ethnic backgrounds.
The programme was developed by the NI Executive and the Department for Communities delivered jointly with NIHE and Housing Associations.
Radius Housing manages 15 Shared Housing developments in total. 11 of these are currently in the development or delivery of 5 Year Good Relations Plans and the remaining 4, although they have come to the end of their plan period, continue to champion good relations in their on-going community engagement.
Shared Status is awarded to a new development when tenancies have been allocated and this has resulted in no single community making up more than 70% within the development.
Celebrating 10 years as a shared scheme
Burnvale, Cookstown was one of the original 10 Shared Housing schemes launched under the NI Executive’s flagship TBUC strategy launched in 2015.
Over 10 years the development has grown into a vibrant shared housing development. This has included the formation of Burnvale Community Association who have worked closely with Radius to deliver many events and activities including the establishment of a local Samba band in 2021, development of Cookstown Cultural Parade, seasonal activities and community gardening initiative including creating space for growing fruit and vegetables.
The final event at Burnvale was the unveiling of a sewing machine sculpture - a tribute to the site’s legacy as the former Daintifyt brassiere factory, once a vital part of Cookstown’s industrial past.
