Work has started on a new housing development that will provide more affordable homes in Gloucester.
Our in-house construction team has begun work at our site in West Lodge Drive in the city, where we will be providing 35 new homes. The site is the former home of Holly House NHS care home but has laid empty since the buildings were demolished in 2013. We were granted permission for the development last year and construction work is now underway.
The new homes will be a mixture of two-, three- and four-bedroom homes, all of which will be for social rent, the most affordable form of social housing rent. Over the past five years we have built more social rent homes than any other housing association in the country.
Project Manager Louisa Fryer said: “It’s fantastic to see work getting underway on our latest development in Gloucestershire. These 35 affordable homes will make a real difference for local families and individuals who are looking for quality, secure housing in Gloucester who may have been priced out of the private rental market. We’re proud to be providing these much-needed affordable rental homes and look forward to welcoming customers into their new homes when they’re completed next year.”
At the start of the month we announced we had secured a site in Gloucester city centre where we'll be building 113 affordable homes, while earlier in the year we purchased an 11-acre site on the outskirts of Gloucester to build 95 homes. We are the largest housing association in Gloucestershire with more than 10,000 homes.