"Residents of a “renegade” Somerset market town have won their battle to create an innovative 5-hectare (12-acre) community-led development that includes homes, workspaces and a lido, after councillors agreed to sell a large brownfield site to the not-for-profit social enterprise behind the project.
The Mayday Saxonvale scheme in Frome, which hundreds of residents have spent five years fighting for, also features two public squares, and a community-owned boutique hotel and cafe.
Supporters of the project, which they believe is the largest of its kind in England, say it means that the Saxonvale site in the town centre will be saved from being turned into a “cookie-cutter” development by a commercial company more focused on its shareholders than the good of the place."
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The thinktank IPPR North and the charity Crisis warn that the rate of homelessness in England will rise by 25% – equivalent to about 50,000 people – by 2030 without bold action reaching 230,000 The analysis by IPPR North and Crisis, based on government figures, suggests that the number of people owed a homelessness duty […]
Shelter denies social housing: "By social housing we mean social rent homes. These homes have rents linked to local incomes and provide a truly affordable, secure housing option for people across the country. We don’t mean affordable rent, shared ownership, or any other so-called ‘affordable’ tenure. "Social rent homes have rents set by a formula […]
As the Faversham Neighbourhood Plan reminds you “Genuinely Affordable housing should be provided that contributes to creating mixed and balanced communities.” Since 2018 across Swale just 149 social rent homes have been delivered, 3.1% of the total. Just 27 were in Faversham. Successive professional housing needs surveys have pointed to unmet need in Faversham In […]
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