West Berkshire Council
Unitary authority · South East
Freeholder status
Housing stock transferred - see below for who now acts as landlord
The predecessor Newbury District Council transferred its full housing stock of around 7,100 homes to the newly-formed West Berkshire Housing Association in 1989, one of the earliest large-scale voluntary transfers in the country; that association was renamed Sovereign Housing Association in 1994 and, following a 2023 merger with Network Homes, is now part of Sovereign Network Group (SNG) - West Berkshire Council itself holds no housing stock
Leaseholder / major-works contact
- Phone
- 0300 500 0926
- contact@sovereign.org.uk
- Postal address
- SNG, Sovereign House, Basing View, Basingstoke RG21 4FA
Verified 26 August 2026. Councils restructure their websites and contact routes from time to time - if this looks wrong or out of date, please let us know.
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