.On 27th April 2015 North & East handed over the keys to 22 homes in McArdle Green, Moneymore to our new tenants. McArdle Green is a scheme of 22 social housing homes and 3 Incremental Purchase homes and was built on a site provided by Louth County Council. It is named in memory of the late Noel McArdle who was a long-standing member of the Board of North & East. The development was funded through a mixture of state funding, North & East’s own resources and private finance. The potential of this type of funding model was acknowledged last year’s Allianz/ICSH Housing awards when the scheme won in the category of Innovative Financial Model.  That is not the only recognition for the scheme as it was also recently named as Public Sector Magazine’s Best New Social Housing Development 2015.

McArdle Green was officially opened by Mayor Paul Bell and has gone from strength to strength in the past year. Friendships have been formed and McArdle green tenants are now firmly part of the Moneymore neighbourhood. Close links have been formed between North & East and the Connect Family Resource Centre in Moneymore and the first anniversary of McArdle Green was celebrated not only by the tenants of North & East but by the wider Moneymore community. North & East wish to thank the residents of McArdle Green and the wider Moneymore area for their support and help in developing this extended community and we continue our commitment to them in the years to come.