A SOCIAL housing organisation has secured Government funding to help build 60 new homes in West Wiltshire.
Selwood Housing, formerly West Wiltshire Housing Association, has been awarded £3.2million to help build the houses.
The total cost of the construction project is £7.5million.
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Selwood plans to build 23 new homes in Melksham, 19 homes in Westbury, nine in Broughton Gifford and nine in Trowbridge.
Chief executive Barry Hughes said: "We are also working on plans to build a further 40 homes in the area, as well as homes in Somerset."
In Melksham 16 apartments will be built in Snarlton Lane and seven flats will be located in Semington Road.
A mixture of 12 flats and houses will be built in Queens Road, Westbury and seven assorted homes will go up in Oldfield Park.
St John's Crescent in Trowbridge will see nine new houses and bungalows go up and in Broughton Gifford there will be a mixture of nine flats and houses.
The £7.5million programme is supported by a grant of £3.2million from the Housing Corporation, the national Government agency that funds and regulates housing associations in England.
All of the new homes will be rented out at affordable prices to people on West Wiltshire District Council's housing register waiting list.
So more money is being spent on the jobless back-sufferers, teenage mothers and others who live off the rest of us. I worked all my life and bought a house. Others can do the same.
So more money is being spent on the jobless back-sufferers, teenage mothers and others who live off the rest of us. I worked all my life and bought a house. Others can do the same.
Posted by: moonrakin_wurzel, Trowbridge on 8:48pm Wed 7 May 08
So that'd be 60 new council houses then....
I do wonder how many more folk are less than gainfully employed administrating all this compared to real private landlords.
It strikes me that council houses worked relatively well for many years until until Maggy's Tory Nutters decided to fix something that wasn't broken and play to voter's greed. Give it another 10 years and we'll be back to council houses....
Public housing in this country is a very expensive, woefully disorganised farce.
So that'd be 60 new council houses then....
I do wonder how many more folk are less than gainfully employed administrating all this compared to real private landlords.
It strikes me that council houses worked relatively well for many years until until Maggy's Tory Nutters decided to fix something that wasn't broken and play to voter's greed. Give it another 10 years and we'll be back to council houses....
Public housing in this country is a very expensive, woefully disorganised farce.
Now let me see Walter, I live in an affordable house and work full time, pay into a private pension plan,pay all my own taxes, I'm in my thirties, I have a nurse, a taxi driver, a carpet fitter, a railway worker, a careworker etc living in the same affordable houses your ranting about. No Vicky Pollards in this street, don't believe all the stereotypical bull sh*t you read.
Now let me see Walter, I live in an affordable house and work full time, pay into a private pension plan,pay all my own taxes, I'm in my thirties, I have a nurse, a taxi driver, a carpet fitter, a railway worker, a careworker etc living in the same affordable houses your ranting about. No Vicky Pollards in this street, don't believe all the stereotypical bull sh*t you read.
Posted by: steve, Wiltshire on 9:27am Thu 8 May 08
I agree with Walter, for once.
By building all these social houses we are sowing the seeds of our own destruction. Too much provision of these homes encourages the feckless to breed and loads taxes on the ever decreasing pool of industrious people. I really don't mind paying taxes for the old, sick or even to train people but not for the idle sods who spend their days doing nothing but causing trouble.
Sit in any magistrates court, If you can find one, and you'll see an endless procession of idiot sub-human males from these estates. Take a walk around Boreham Fields in Warminster, or any of the big social estates and you can see the future.
The people I feel sorry for are the law abiding minority who live on these estates and have to put up with these people - there's also the question of pepper-potting on new build estates but that's a whole new can of worms.
I agree with Walter, for once.
By building all these social houses we are sowing the seeds of our own destruction. Too much provision of these homes encourages the feckless to breed and loads taxes on the ever decreasing pool of industrious people. I really don't mind paying taxes for the old, sick or even to train people but not for the idle sods who spend their days doing nothing but causing trouble.
Sit in any magistrates court, If you can find one, and you'll see an endless procession of idiot sub-human males from these estates. Take a walk around Boreham Fields in Warminster, or any of the big social estates and you can see the future.
The people I feel sorry for are the law abiding minority who live on these estates and have to put up with these people - there's also the question of pepper-potting on new build estates but that's a whole new can of worms.
Posted by: cindy, darkest Corsham on 4:11pm Thu 8 May 08
I have to say I agree, too. I suggest for every working occupant known to Maz, there are two or three idle dole-merchants. We are encouraging generations to carry on the benefit dependancy.
I have to say I agree, too. I suggest for every working occupant known to Maz, there are two or three idle dole-merchants. We are encouraging generations to carry on the benefit dependancy.
Posted by: Alex Zivojinovich, Wiltshire on 5:42pm Fri 9 May 08
Hopefully, these 23 houses due for Melksham will be the usual crap of plyboard, sellotape and drawing pins. We can then deconstruct them during the night....shouldnt take any more than an hour to do all of them and dump them on Mt Crushmore. The gypsies could then reconstruct them with th blessing of the Council. Result (and of course the gypos will be where they belong for the next 20 years.Perfect!!
Hopefully, these 23 houses due for Melksham will be the usual crap of plyboard, sellotape and drawing pins. We can then deconstruct them during the night....shouldnt take any more than an hour to do all of them and dump them on Mt Crushmore. The gypsies could then reconstruct them with th blessing of the Council. Result (and of course the gypos will be where they belong for the next 20 years.Perfect!!
Posted by: GSXRRRSP, WESTBURY on 10:49pm Sat 10 May 08
[quote][bold]walter[/bold] wrote:
So more money is being spent on the jobless back-sufferers, teenage mothers and others who live off the rest of us. I worked all my life and bought a house. Others can do the same.[/quote] you really are a **** walter!!!!
walter wrote:
So more money is being spent on the jobless back-sufferers, teenage mothers and others who live off the rest of us. I worked all my life and bought a house. Others can do the same.
Posted by: Alex Zivojinovich, Wiltshire on 8:51pm Sun 11 May 08
GSX..the time has come. Do it, then me and you are going to Beanacre to watch. I assume we will get to pick the pat old jarge? Gotta be fresh with active dung beatles for that added crunch.
GSX..the time has come. Do it, then me and you are going to Beanacre to watch. I assume we will get to pick the pat old jarge? Gotta be fresh with active dung beatles for that added crunch.
The day GSX posts anything positive about his fellow man is the day I'll eat the cows finest 8oz loin, rare with sauteed potatoes and a red wine jus.
To be fair though it is easier to cruise and criticise then post anything meaningful. CC summed itup in an earlier post, "paralysed from the neck up".
His entertainment value is unparalelled though.
The day GSX posts anything positive about his fellow man is the day I'll eat the cows finest 8oz loin, rare with sauteed potatoes and a red wine jus.
To be fair though it is easier to cruise and criticise then post anything meaningful. CC summed itup in an earlier post, "paralysed from the neck up".
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