Mansfield District Council has revealed plans to build 99 high quality, eco-friendly council homes to let at an affordable rent are moving forward.
All the homes will be offered for affordable rents and will be owned and managed by the local authority.
One of the schemes will see an expansion of the Poppy Fields development at Centenary Road with 77 homes for older people and families, built at a cost of £14.8m.
The other, costing £5.7m, involves demolishing a row of flats and shops in Egmanton Road on the Bellamy Road estate and replacing them with 22 family homes built round a ‘village green’ with a play area.
Final approval for the funding requirements of the schemes will be taken by the full council on 27 January.
The council’s in-house architects are designing these homes to align with government carbon reduction targets and to the Future Homes Standard, expected to be adopted nationally by 2025.
‘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,’ said portfolio holder for safer communities, housing and wellbeing, Cllr Marion Bradshaw.
‘These schemes align with all four of the key council strategic priorities for growth, wellbeing, aspiration and place.
‘Among the themes of this 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,’ added Cllr Bradshaw.
‘They will not only offer an excellent quality of the life for the tenants who will live in these new homes, but deliver improvements that will benefit the wider neighbourhoods around these schemes, too.
‘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.’
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