Much-needed affordable council homes are ready for local people in Devon to move into after being partly built by prisoners in a factory hundreds of miles away as part of an award-winning national initiative, initially led and piloted by the Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner for Devon, Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. A development of five two and three bed council modular homes was manufactured in […]
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I’m really proud to be sharing the news that Prisoners Building Homes has won Programme of the Year at the UK Civil Service Awards. This is a huge achievement and a moment worth celebrating, not just for the team behind the programme, but for everyone who believes that rehabilitation, skills and opportunity can genuinely change lives. What makes this even more special for […]
An innovative new artificial intelligence (AI) tool designed to revolutionise housebuilding by making it quicker and more cost effective to secure planning permission is to be used to help deliver affordable housing for award-winning Prisoners Building Homes (PBH). LANDCLAN, in partnership with PBH, has been awarded £100,000 from the government’s PropTech Innovation Challenge Fund to support […]
An innovative and pioneering home building scheme that helps rehabilitate prisoners and ex-offenders by providing employment and skills in construction, enabling them to turn their lives around, has received national recognition at a prestigious awards ceremony. Prisoners Building Homes (PBH) was the brainchild of the five Police and Crime Commissioners (PCCs) in the South West of […]