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Glaisdale to get 11 affordable homes
GLAISDALE will finally get 11 affordable houses following a series of delays that held up the scheme.
The houses are to be built on a site north of High Street between Ghyll Brow cul-de-sac and Greenleigh.
The development is designed to link the present local authority housing at Ghyll Brow with the rest of the village.
The applicants were Sanctuary Housing and the development will comprise five houses with two bedrooms and six with three bedrooms.
A pair of two bedroom houses and two of those with three bedrooms will be offered on a shared ownership basis, allowing a maximum of 80% to be bought.
Ownership of the rest will be retained by the Sanctuary Housing Association to be offered at a social rent.
Glaisdale parish councillors campaigned for some years for the development but final approval of the plan was held up by delays over the purchase of the land.
The new housing will help to support the village's primary school, Robinson Institute, post office, general store and local butcher's.
A parish housing needs survey carried out last year revealed that there was a need for 26 new houses in the village over the next five years which should include a two-bedroom flat and eight bungalows.
The houses will be offered first to people in the Glaisdale parish and then, if any are still available, to people in adjoining parishes.
The village has a railway station on the Whitby to Middlesbrough line and also has a bus service.
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