Seven-hundred jobs will go at plants in Rotherham and Stocksbridge, South Yorkshire, and the remainder will be spread between Tipton, West Midlands, and Llanwern in Wales.
Another 2200 jobs are under threat in Tees Valley, where a shadow market renewal pathfinder board has been established to lobby Whitehall for access to the £500m renewal fund announced in the Communities Plan.
Iain Sim, chief executive of Coast and Country Housing, the transfer landlord for Redcar and Cleveland council's 11,500 homes, said: "We have areas of stock that are suffering badly from low demand … and if Corus closed people would leave. There would then be obvious knock-on effects on the local housing market and wider economy."
Peter O'Brien, planning and design adviser for the South Yorkshire market renewal pathfinder, said: "We will be looking at the impact of the job losses to see what it means for our plans."
Joanne Roney, executive director of housing at Sheffield council, told Housing Today in March that if job losses were sustained in the pathfinder area, the impact would be "devastating".
Stocksbridge, whose factory will lose 350 workers, is outside the pathfinder area. However, the plant at Rotherham falls within the pathfinder's remit and will cause problems for the its economic modelling of future housing demand.
A key plank of the pathfinder initiative is analysis of how to approach low demand and whether the local economy requires stimulation to provide new jobs and replacement housing.
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Housing Today
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