{"id":49467,"date":"2018-11-26T13:48:46","date_gmt":"2018-11-26T13:48:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/?p=49467"},"modified":"2018-11-26T13:52:36","modified_gmt":"2018-11-26T13:52:36","slug":"cheshire-west-council-invest-affordable-homes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/cheshire-west-council-invest-affordable-homes\/49467\/","title":{"rendered":"Cheshire West Council invest millions into building new affordable homes"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>The Cheshire West and Chester Council has received grant funding of \u00a314.68 million to produce 700 new affordable homes across the borough<\/h2>\n<p>The Accelerated Construction grant from Homes England is set to kickstart building work across six different housing sites in Ellesmere Port, Chester and Winsford to produce more affordable homes.<\/p>\n<p>The six sites include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the former Acorns Primary School and Rivacre business centre in Ellesmere Port<\/li>\n<li>the former Handley Hill School in Winsford<\/li>\n<li>Wharton Green in Winsford, which is identified in the Winsford Neighbourhood Plan for residential development<\/li>\n<li>a small site in Lache, Chester<\/li>\n<li>land to the rear of Verdin Exchange in Winsford in Winsford, also identified in Winsford Neighbourhood Plan for residential development.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Already the Council has delivered over 900 new homes and the additional funding will support the construction of a further 700 new homes to meet the rising demand for more housing in the area.<\/p>\n<p>Thirty per cent of the new builds will be affordable homes. The remaining homes will be built for sale, affordable rent, shared ownership and privately rented properties.<\/p>\n<p>Cabinet Member for Housing, Cllr Angela Claydon has said that the Council has &#8220;recognised the importance of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/bristol-housing-project-affordable-housing-for-young-homeless\/49108\/\">affordable housing<\/a>&#8221; and hopes the funding will the final push needed to deliver these much needed homes.<\/p>\n<p>To deliver the builds, the Council will work in collaboration and partnership with well-trusted developers and Housing Associations.<\/p>\n<div class=\"mk-custom-module-container\">\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Cheshire West and Chester Council has received grant funding of \u00a314.68 million to produce 700 new homes across the borough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[304],"tags":[666,830,676,276,656],"stakeholder_rel_tag":[],"contributor_rel_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-49467","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-planning-construction-news","7":"tag-affordable-housing","8":"tag-build-to-rent","9":"tag-construction","10":"tag-government","11":"tag-housing"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.9 (Yoast SEO v26.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Cheshire West Council invest millions into building new affordable homes<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Cheshire West and Chester Council has received grant funding of \u00a314.68 million to produce 700 new homes across the borough.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/cheshire-west-council-invest-affordable-homes\/49467\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Cheshire West Council invest millions into building new homes\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Cheshire West and Chester Council has received grant funding of \u00a314.68 million to produce 700 new homes across the borough.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/cheshire-west-council-invest-affordable-homes\/49467\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Planning, Building &amp; 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