A leading housing association is set to build around 1,800 affordable homes in Devon over the next five years as part of a £1billion investment in the regional economy.
As the largest housing provider in the South West, LiveWest has more than 16,000 homes in Devon and currently owns more than 40,000 homes across the South West.
LiveWest has stepped up its investment in the county over the past year after building 381 affordable homes over the last year.
In Teignbridge 113 affordable homes were built, with 102 in Exeter, 73 in South Hams, 42 in Plymouth, 21 in...
Independent housebuilder, Acorn Property Group, has celebrated a momentous milestone in the development of new homes at St. Leonards Quarter in Exeter, with a topping out ceremony.
Set just a mile outside of the bustling Exeter city centre, Acorn has confirmed that the first apartment block within the development is structurally complete as the final brick was laid on top of the Block D roof as part of the ceremony.
Attending the ceremony were key figures who contributed to the development thus far, including, Grainge Architects and Box Twenty Consulting Engineers and...
A leading housing association is set to build 218 homes in rural areas across Devon over the next two years.
In a week when the housing sector celebrates Rural Housing Week – a yearly event organised by the National Housing Federation – LiveWest has demonstrated its commitment to rural housing by building 508 rural homes in the past two years.
LiveWest has invested close to £44m in rural homes during the last financial year having built 264 homes in rural areas.
In the last two years, LiveWest has built 31 homes in Crediton, 21 homes in Bovey Tracey, and...
Four out of five (81%) renters in the South West are unable to purchase a property over the next five years, according to the Affordable Housing Commission. Using the new approach set out in its recent report: ‘Defining and measuring housing affordability – an alternative approach’, it reveals that 430,000 households in the South West are living in unaffordable housing, a total of 18% of households in the region.
In wake of these findings, the Town and Country Planning Association (TCPA) along with the Affordable Housing Commission, will be hosting free training events for councils...
Landowners behind England’s 5,000 largest rural estates should be called upon to release land for affordable housing, according to The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS).
The RICS Rural Policy Paper, published today, sets out a number of recommendations as to how central and local Government could better manage rural land and support countryside communities, including offering measures to encourage large landowners to release space on their estates for eight or more affordable houses. This might include partial inheritance tax exemptions, allowing heirs to avoid paying...
Fourteen families have moved into new ecologically friendly, high tech homes built by Exeter City Council as part of a project to make the most of underused spaces in the city and create affordable housing for local people.
Silverberry Close and Barberry Close provide a total of 14 new three-bedroom properties, including two fully wheelchair accessible homes.
These rented houses are now providing comfortable living space for families who were waiting for a suitable place to live on Exeter’s Housing Register.
The buildings are designed to be as ecological, low energy...
East Devon District Council and Sanctuary Group have worked together once again to provide extra affordable housing in Axminster.
In 1997 and 2010 Sanctuary completed the first and second phases of the re-development of formerly owned council land to provide 16 homes and a block of 8 flats.
Now a further ten homes have been completed, which sees the successful delivery of the third and final phase of this development. The latest project involved demolishing two empty council properties and replacing them with ten new affordable homes.
Work is set to start this autumn to provide 18 much-needed affordable homes in Fore Street, Exmouth.
The owners of the Fore Street site, Eagle One Homes, and Mi-Space, part of Midas Group, are working in partnership with leading housing organisation, DCH (formerly Devon & Cornwall Housing) and are transferring it after initial site preparation works are completed.
“We are really pleased to have agreed terms with DCH to provide this much needed affordable housing for Exmouth,” says Chris Fayers, Director at Eagle One Homes. “Work will be starting on site during the...
