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Hanover Housing Association was a British
registered social landlord In Ireland and the United Kingdom, housing associations are private, non-profit making organisations that provide low-cost "social housing" for people in need of a home. Any budget surplus is used to maintain existing housing and to help fin ...
(RSL) and a
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exempt charity registered as an
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Hanover Housing Association. 2011. Retrieved 30 September 2011
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Anchor Hanover Group Anchor Hanover Group, trading as Anchor, is the largest provider of specialist housing and care for older people in England. It was formed in November 2018 when Anchor Trust and Hanover Housing Association merged. Its main office is in Bradford. ...
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History

Hanover Housing Association was formed in 1963 and was named after Hanover Gate, the West Gate into London's Regent's Park, where the first Board meetings of the Association were held. The Association managed almost 19,000 mixed tenure Retirement and Extra Care properties on more than 600 estates.''Associations face losing charity status'' by Carl Brown & Rhiannon Bury.
Inside Housing, 11 March 2011. Retrieved 30 September 2011
Archived here.
/ref> The proposed merger of Hanover Housing Association and Anchor was announced in May 2018, and was completed successfully later the same year, creating Anchor Hanover Group. Dr Stuart Burgess CBE was Chairman of the Association and Clare Tickell was the Chief Executive until the merger with Anchor.


See also

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External links


Official website.
1963 establishments in the United Kingdom Housing associations based in England {{UK-org-stub