The Ridings Housing Association has won the ECA-sponsored National Home Improvement Council 2004 award for Housing Associations modernisation projects. Presented at the NHIC Annual Awards ceremony in London, the winning project was the The Granges in Chapeltown, Leeds. This comprised four Victorian homes converted 30 years ago into small flats; the project returned the properties to larger four/five bedroom and three high-spec, two-bedroom homes. Judges commented: “Its success must have positive implications for many housing associations around the country who own similar properties with identical problems.”