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Parkway affordable homes set to be occupied after three-year delay




Social rent and shared-ownership homes being advertised

AFTER a three-year delay, Parkway’s empty affordable homes are about to be occupied.

In 2008, West Berkshire Council paid £900,000 of taxpayers’ money to Parkway developer Standard Life Investments (SLI) to make 37 of the 147 homes affordable.

The affordable homes have remained unoccupied since 2013 – mainly because of a delay in app-ointing a social housing provider to manage them.

One Housing Group was eventually appointed in August 2015 and it is now looking for people to move into the 18 shared-ownership and 19 social rented properties. One Housing’s director of development Alan Williams said: “We’re very pleased to finally be nearing completion on these high-quality affordable homes for the local community.

“We’re proud of the work we’re doing to get these homes ready and we look forward to welcoming the first residents.”

West Berkshire Council’s executive member for housing Hilary Cole (Con, Chieveley) said: “This is cause for celebration.

“It has been a long and frustrating journey but, most important, we are now able to provide these affordable homes to the people who need them.

“It is great to see this long-awaited project come to fruition and to be able to provide more affordable homes in this very central location in Newbury.”

The rented properties are being advertised to people on the council’s housing register. The shared ownership properties are being advertised on www.helptobuysouth.co.uk

Applicants for these must also be on the council’s housing register as they will be shortlisted according to need.



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