page_title: Curo
section_title: Areas of activity
hierarchical_section_title: Curo / Areas of activity
caption_attribution_description: English: The Hub community centre on Curo's new Mulberry Park 700 home development on the former Fox Hill MoD office site. The community centre and adjacent Mulberry Park Educate Together Primary School cost £10 million to build, and won the South West Community Benefit category at the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) Awards 2019.[1][2]
context_page_description: Curo Group is a not-for-profit housing association based in Bath, England. Curo's operating area is the West of England, with the majority of its homes located in Bath and North East Somerset where it is the largest housing provider.
context_section_description: In December 2018, when Curo Group (Albion) Limited converted from a private company to a community benefit society, the structure changed so Curo Places Limited was its only subsidiary, and the other companies became subsidiaries of Curo Places Limited which has charitable status:
  Curo Choice Limited: care and support functions (charitable status);
  Curo Enterprise Limited: established in 2012 for commercial activities including housing development, trading as Curo Homes;
  Curo Market Rented Services Limited: manages market rented homes;
  Mulberry Park Community Benefit Society: manages services on the Mulberry Park estate  (charitable status).
  Curo manages over 13,000 homes mainly in Bath and Bristol, and had a turnover of £93.1 million and had 503 employees in the 2018–19 financial year.
  It is a housing association registered with Homes England. Curo provides homes at low-cost social and affordable rents through local authorities’ choice-based lettings schemes, and for sale through shared ownership. Curo also provides homes at market rents and for sale on the open market, cross-subsidising its charitable activities.
  Curo provides support services to older and vulnerable people, including people affected by homelessness and people with disabilities. In 2018 Curo's Wellbeing House received the UK Housing Award for 'Outstanding approach to meeting specialist housing needs'. 
  In 2013 Curo purchased a 48 acres (19 hectares) Ministry of Defence site, Foxhill in Combe Down, for £50 million, to build about 700 houses on the site in a development eventually called Mulberry Park. Curo also had originally planned to demolish a neighbouring housing estate of 542 homes, which it about 80% owns, and replace it with about 700 new houses supported by the government's Estate Regeneration Programme. This proved controversial with residents, who raised over 250 objections to the plans. In February 2018, after residents commenced a legal action, Curo announced that it was no longer demolishing the estate and would instead focus on refurbishing the existing dwellings. In June 2018 the High Court ruled in a judicial review that the grant of outline planning permission for the development was unlawful as the council "did not have due regard to the impact on the elderly and disabled persons" whose homes might have been demolished.
caption: The Hub community centre on the Mulberry Park development on the former Foxhill  MoD site. The community centre and adjacent Mulberry Park Educate Together Primary School cost £10 million to build, and won the South West Community Benefit category at the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors Awards 2019.[10]
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