Exciting New Affordable Housing Scheme for Lancaster

Impact Housing Association is building twenty six new homes in Lancaster. They will be let to local households on affordable rents. Grant funding is being contributed by the Government’s Homes and Communities Agency with further funding from Lancaster City Council. The capital cost will be £3.96m, with the balance being raised by Impact and paid back through the rents. Rents will be just over £100 per week. The scheme, which has not yet got planning permission, started on site in 2013 and will be completed in 2014. There will be 14 family houses and 12 flats. The flats will be let to people with physical disabilities through Leonard Cheshire Disability, who are providing the additional funding for the specialist features in the scheme.
 

Mike Muir, Impact’s Chief Executive, said “This is the first social housing scheme that we have built in Lancaster and only the second scheme we have carried out in partnership with the City Council. We’re really pleased to be building these new rented houses to help local families stay in their local community.”

The homes will all be built to very high insulation levels and are designed to keep running costs as low as possible for residents.
 

For further information, contact Mike Muir on 01900 842140.