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First new council homes in 20 years approved

Completion of the first new council houses to be built in North Kesteven District for 20 years is only weeks away.

Fulfilment in late February of the two homes being built in Waddington from straw will be swiftly followed by the start of two more at Martin and the beginning of a programme to deliver 15 council houses based on more standard construction methods.

The 19 homes must be delivered before the end of March 2011 under the conditions of a £1m-plus Homes and Community Agency grant which is half-funding the programme. Progress took a major step forward this week with the approval of planning consent for a total of five homes in Wellingore and two in Ruskington.

Work on these seven will start in late March and early April, along with the two new straw houses at West Grove Martin which already have outline planning consent.

Preliminary work is also underway at The Hoplands, Sleaford where garage demolition and archaeological surveys are being carried out prior to the construction of six homes in total.

These are the first council houses to be built in North Kesteven since 1989, when Witham View at Washingborough and Thomas Court, Sleaford were built, and the first construction the council has managed in-house in almost 30 years

The package of 19 houses will involve:

Two semi-detached straw-built houses with three bedrooms, for five people, at Brumby Crescent, Waddington;

Two semi-detached straw-built houses, with three bedrooms, for five people, at West Grove, Martin;

Two two-bed homes for four and a three-bed house for five at Cumberland Avenue, Wellingore;

Two three-bed homes at Grayson Green, Wellingore, for five people each;

Two three-bed homes for five at Elizabeth Avenue, North Hykeham;

Two three-bed homes for five at Hillside Estate, Ruskington;

At The Hoplands, Sleaford: two three-bedroomed homes for five and three with two bedrooms; one for four people and two for three people.

All are being built to satisfy the rigorous tests of Level 4 of the Code of Sustainable Homes and all are architecturally designed to fit in with their locality.

Their addition to the housing stock of 3,800 council-operated homes means that for the first time in decades the property portfolio available to tenants is increasing.

Leader of North Kesteven District Council, Councillor Marion Brighton, OBE, said that the council's reinvigorated focus on building new affordable homes, made possible and brought forward through its successful bid to the Homes and Community Agency would be of great benefit to District residents at a time when there are 1,100 people on the housing register.

"Progress on the first of these 19 new homes we are planning will make a substantial difference for people in need and contribute towards us meeting our affordable housing targets. We greatly look forward to being able to offer them for rent to tenants in need as soon as possible," she said.

Article Published: 14/01/2010

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