We have taken the next step in progressing our first housing scheme in the Holme Valley, the Chippings site at Scholes. The vision of our locally based housing charity is to build homes for local people that they can afford, that are cheap to run and fit for the future.
A request has been just been submitted for the Kirklees MC planners’ initial and technical advice on using the site for up to ten affordable homes. The homes will be built to high quality, low-energy standards, modelling how future homes should be constructed. This is a small-scale scheme which will be in a pleasant environment with as much open, shared space on the site as possible. Our outline proposals reflect the ideas that were supported in the wide community consultation during last summer and seek to address issues raised by local residents in more recent conversations.
The site is a former quarry on the edge of Scholes village at the corner of Chapelgate and Dean Bridge Lane and is owned by the Holme Valley Land Charity who wish it to be used for a good social purpose. The homes will be kept in community ownership and remain affordable in perpetuity.
More affordable homes and a more sustainable approach to local developments is at the heart of the Holme Valley Neighbourhood Plan, shortly to be voted on by the community. Evidence from our surveys show that around 80% of people believe that homes being built should be within the price range of local people who otherwise are forced to move away.
We should know in October whether we can proceed to the next stage of submitting a planning application following full consultation with the local community.
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