8.5 million will be spent on four community housing schemes to deliver 55 new homes.
Homes will be built in South Brent, Brixton, Kingsbridge and St Ann’s Chapel and they will be for local people who are unable to afford to buy homes in their local communities.
The scheme, from South Hams District Council, will involve a fix of discount purchase and affordable rented units, as well as some open market units to cross subsidise the affordable element and ensure such housing is truly affordable to rent or buy for local people.
Planning applications for the South Brent and St Ann’s Chapel sites have already been submitted, while the application for the Brixton and Kingsbridge sites are expected to go in before the summer. Target construction takes for the schemes would see them all built by 2020.
Further schemes for Cornwood, Dittisham, Loddiswell, Modbury, Stoke Gabriel, Thurlestone, East Prawle and East Portlemouth are set to come forward at a later date.
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