105 affordable homes to be built in Bournemouth (From Thisisdorset)
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105 affordable homes to be built in Bournemouth
5:00pm Monday 13th February 2012 in News
A PROGRAMME of council house building will see a total of 105 new family homes built in Bournemouth.
Seventeen new affordable homes will be built at Craigmoore Avenue and Bradpole Road in Strouden Park but the council is refusing to specify where the other 10 sites are.
The council has been offered a Homes and Communities Agency grant of £1.695m to build the properties, providing it acts quickly and can sign a contract with the HCA by next month.
A report going to cabinet on Wednesday, February 15, states: “There is a significant and growing need for affordable family housing in Bournemouth. However, market conditions, reduced grant funding and slow new build starts have markedly reduced the opportunity to deliver against this need.
“Provision in recent years has been limited to smaller flats rather than family accommodation. There is a need for more family sized homes in order to reduce the amount of time that households with this need are waiting on the housing register.”
As well as building more family homes, the council is seeking to change its housing allocation policy so locals get priority status.
Councillor John Beesley, deputy leader of Bournemouth Council, said: “One of the council’s key priorities is to provide more affordable housing in Bournemouth.
“In particular, we are committed to, and acknowledge the need for more affordable family accommodation as well as actively reducing the wait on the council housing register for family homes.
“This opportunity to provide more council housing is one that we want to progress as soon as possible in order to secure the vital funding to allow us to deliver more homes for Bournemouth residents.”
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Tig
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5:40pm Mon 13 Feb 12
yummybrummy in bournemouth
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5:41pm Mon 13 Feb 12
yummybrummy in bournemouth
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5:45pm Mon 13 Feb 12
mysticalshoelace
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6:32pm Mon 13 Feb 12
manana
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7:31pm Mon 13 Feb 12
mysticalshoelace wrote:People on benefits.......
Affordable for who?
Wageslave
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8:16pm Mon 13 Feb 12
l'anglais
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9:25pm Mon 13 Feb 12
Wageslave wrote:Sorry you're wrong, Bournemouth is morally vacant.
Is this 'as well as' or 'instead of' the gypsy sites.Bournemouth has NO VACANCIES it is FULL.
Tinie temple
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11:18pm Mon 13 Feb 12
Azphreal
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9:38am Tue 14 Feb 12
catseye
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9:50am Tue 14 Feb 12
Adrian Fudge
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9:52am Tue 14 Feb 12
I thought that they were making great play on the need for family houses with ammenity areas , used to be called gardens.
Mind you when you concider that one of their priorities is affordable housing yet when the proceeds of Terrace Mount sale was not used for cultural use they changed the rules so that no housing had to be provided and they allocated the money elsewhere
They also need to do this to enhance the capital program for next year which has been decimated from £45M this year to under £10M with an unavoidable resultant impact on local employment
charley farley west parley says...
5:34pm Mon 13 Feb 12
Can't think where further properties on either rd can be built unless this is why a kids playground is proposed for the Queens Park Golf Course car park so that the one on the Strouden Park field on Bradpole Rd can be closed and the land built on.