Four win Stockton ALMO job

Four firms have unlocked up to 30m-worth of council house upgrading work in the North East.

Tristar Homes, Stockton-on-Tees Borough Council's arms-length management company, has put its faith in Frank Haslam Milan and Connaught to tackle the work in the Thornaby and Billingham areas respectively.

The Stockton area will be shared out between Mears and Dunelom Property Services.

The framework contracts will be worth up to 30m during the first five years, with the possibility of an extension for five more years to cover the council's entire stock of 14,000 homes.

Work is due to start on site this autumn to bring the homes up to the government's "decent standards" criteria.

The scope of the scheme includes general structural repairs, new roofs, doors, kitchens and bathrooms.