{"id":82825,"date":"2020-09-22T14:19:05","date_gmt":"2020-09-22T13:19:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/?p=82825"},"modified":"2020-09-23T08:18:16","modified_gmt":"2020-09-23T07:18:16","slug":"new-homes-greenwich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/new-homes-greenwich\/82825\/","title":{"rendered":"Meridian Home Start provides affordable homes for Greenwich"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/www.royalgreenwich.gov.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Royal Greenwich<\/a> has joined forces with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meridianhomestart.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Meridian Home Start<\/a> to deliver brand new homes for over 60 families and individuals previously on housing waiting lists<\/h2>\n<p>Each new home has its own front courtyard and terrace areas, and all are let to local families at discounted rates.<\/p>\n<p>Priority will be given to those in overcrowded or unsatisfactory rented accommodation, key workers, those <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/local-housing-allowance-homelessness\/59671\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">threatened with homelessness<\/a> and those on the council housing register.<\/p>\n<p>Woodpecker Gardens joins another Meridian development at Jack\u2019s Acre in Eltham, which provided 29 affordable homes, with a further two sites at Carnbrook Road, SE3, and Fletching Road, SE7, currently under construction.<\/p>\n<p>Observing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/health-safety-news\/social-distancing-construction\/74432\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">social distancing rules<\/a>, the councillors and chair of Meridian Homes Start board toured Woodpecker Gardens before being introduced to two of the residents who moved in recently, following \u201cvirtual viewings\u201d arranged by Pinnacle lettings management to overcome the challenges posed by lockdown.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">&#8220;This is one of the best things to happen in Greenwich.&#8221;<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Woodpecker Gardens residents, Omotayo Garba and Rosemary Agu, said: \u201cMy family is very happy with the partnership between all parties \u2013 Meridian Homes Start &amp; Greenwich Council in that it has helped us settle into a new home that is affordable, and provides tenancy security.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Other residents, Mr and Mrs Tanase, said: \u201cThe event was great; my family are very happy with our new house, especially the internal lift. We thank the councillors, Meridian Homes &amp; Pinnacle for visiting.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Member for Housing Cllr, Anthony Okereke, said: \u201cWe\u2019re extremely proud of the fact that our partnership with Meridian Home Start, which was set up by Royal Greenwich to overcome restrictions placed on council home building by central government, has successfully delivered 32 quality new homes for local residents.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor our borough to thrive it is essential that key workers and those on modest incomes have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/62-decline-affordable-housing\/69381\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">access to affordable housing<\/a>, and with an average rent of \u00a3870 for a two-bedroom house, Woodpecker Gardens fulfils this need.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith this partnership and the 750 council homes due to be delivered by our Greenwich Builds programme the council are stepping in to provide much-needed homes which will keep our community strong.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Leader of the Council, councillor Danny Thorpe, added: \u201cIt\u2019s been so great to meet the residents at Woodpecker Gardens and to see how the innovative model set up by Royal Greenwich with Meridian Home Start has paid dividends for local people.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Rents being charged at 65% of market-rate means that these high-quality homes are within reach of ordinary Londoners, making good on our commitment to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/co-location-developments\/80397\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tackling the housing crisis<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We\u2019re looking forward to delivering many more of these homes both in partnership with Meridian and through our Greenwich Builds council home-building programme\u201d.<\/p>\n<div class=\"mk-custom-module-container\">\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Royal Greenwich has joined forces with Meridian Home Start to deliver brand new homes for over 60 families and individuals previously on housing waiting lists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"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":[666,676,997,276,572,571,570],"stakeholder_rel_tag":[],"contributor_rel_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-82825","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-planning-construction-news","7":"tag-affordable-housing","8":"tag-construction","9":"tag-development","10":"tag-government","11":"tag-housebuilding","12":"tag-housing-crisis","13":"tag-social-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>Meridian Home Start provides affordable homes for Greenwich<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Royal Greenwich has joined forces with Meridian Home Start to deliver brand new homes for over 60 families previously on housing waiting lists\" \/>\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\/new-homes-greenwich\/82825\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Meridian Home Start provides affordable homes for Greenwich\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Royal Greenwich has joined forces with Meridian Home Start to deliver brand new homes for over 60 families previously on housing waiting lists\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/new-homes-greenwich\/82825\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Planning, Building &amp; 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