99 new homes in major schemes
PROPERTIES FOR FAMILIES AND OLDER PEOPLE SAYS COUNCIL
ALMOST 100 new council homes are in the pipeline for Mansfield as the council plans to spend more than £20 million on affordable homes.
They will be built in two separate developments totalling 99 council properties, aimed at older people and families.
One of the schemes will see the expansion of the Poppy Fields development at Centenary Road, where 77 homes will be added.
This will cost around £14.8 million, and is the third and final phase of Mansfield District Council’s flagship council house project.
The first two phases of the development, which brought 64 extracare homes and 20 properties for older people, were completed in 2016.
Work on the third phase is expected to start in late 2021, with 29 “general needs” homes and apartments, and 48 apartments or bungalows for older people.
The second set of new homes will be on the Bellamy Road estate, where the council plans to knock down shops and flats off Egmanton Road in favour of 22 homes and a “village green”.
The council has set a budget of £5.7 million for that development.
Final approval by councillors is set to come during the full council meeting tomorrow.
Councillor Marion Bradshaw, portfolio holder for safer communities, housing and wellbeing, said: “These are significant schemes which we are very proud of and will deliver a variety of much-needed affordable new council housing for both families and older people.
“In particular, one of them will help address a district-wide shortage of two-bedroom bungalows.
“Among the themes of these strategies are targets to develop a better and wider mix of housing across the district.
“All the homes will be built to a higher specification than is currently required to future-proof them for expected new housing standards and make them flexible living spaces that can adapt to tenants’ changing needs over their lifetime.
“They will not only offer an excellent quality of life for the tenants who will live in these new homes, but deliver improvements that will benefit the wider neighbourhoods around these schemes, too.”
He added: “The construction of them will also provide work and supply chain opportunities for local people and businesses at a time when we need to support our local economy as much as possible in the midst of the terrible effects of the coronavirus pandemic.”
All the new homes will be offered for affordable rents and will be owned and managed by the district council.