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Affordable housing scheme announced

A Housing association has announced plans to build over 50 affordable new homes in Darlington.

Railway Housing Association has been successful in its £1.2 million funding bid to the Homes and Communities Agency (HCA) and is now finalising its plans for the 53-home development in the Haughton area of the town.

In total, the Association will spend £5.6 million on the scheme, which will be a mixture of two and three-bedroom homes, two-bedroom bungalows and one-bedroom apartments.

A planning application will be submitted to Darlington Borough Council in the next couple of months and if it is approved work could start in spring 2015, with completion the following year.

This news comes just over a month after the Association began work on a £1.3 million, ten-home development at Alverton Drive, Darlington, which is expected to be completed early next year.

Anne Rowlands, Railway Housing Association’s Chief Executive, said: “This will be by far our biggest housing development in the last 25 years and we are delighted that it will help to meet some of the great demand for high quality affordable rented accommodation in Darlington.”

The properties will be built to the Code for Sustainable Homes Level 3 Standard, which will mean they will be 25% more energy efficient than properties built before 2006. This will include additional insulation and water saving features.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Neil Shaefer .