A NUMBER of regeneration schemes came under the scrutiny of the Housing Corporation during a visit from some of the organisation's most senior figures.

The corporation is responsible for investing public cash in housing associations.

A delegation visited Tees Valley Housing Group (TVHG) to tour a number of the association's sites.

Chairman Peter Dixon was joined by the corporation's director of investment for the North, John Carleton, and assistant director of investment North-East Lindsay Greenwood.

Tees Valley's chairman Stephen Merckx conducted the tour which took in projects in the Whinney Banks and Convent Gardens areas of Middlesbrough.

The group also visited the Market Renewal area of Grangetown/South Bank, as well as the recently refurbished Grade I-listed Sir William Turners Almshouses scheme in Kirkleatham, Redcar, and the Market Renewal Trinity Estate project in North Ormesby.

Mr Merckx said: "We are rightly proud of the work Tees Valley Housing Group has done on some of the key regeneration sites in the area, so it was a pleasure to be able to show Peter Dixon and his team what the Housing Corporation money allocated to these schemes has been, and is being, used for.

"I believe our visitors left having been shown that TVHG is in a prime position to fulfil a large part of the housing renewal required."