- Vote in the European Parliament Elections on 4 June
- Council to fly flag for armed forces
- Rape alarms available from police and Council
- Organic garden opens its gates
- Poetry, comedy and literature at libraries festival this summer
- Music and nature at the Stables Gallery
- Views wanted on policies to guide future growth of borough
- Council team takes up the bike challenge
- Walk the Thames
- New Mayor reopens Teddington Library
- Free parking in Richmond upon Thames on Monday
- Personal alarms available from police and Council
- Learning the Kunskapsskolan way
- New affordable homes to be built
- Council seeks new co-sponsor for Shene
- Your vote could help Orleans House Gallery win the £100,000 Art Fund prize
- By the light of the moon
- Making parks even better
- Get Fit in Castlenau Recreation Ground
- Football Club scores with Council
- Employee Awards for Power Candidates
- CPZ review
- Eat al fresco in Church Street
- Olympic gold medallist trains Richmond rowers
- Join in the fun at Heathfield Street Party on 16 May
- Meeting of young minds to become annual event
- Council supports IDAHO
- It’s stitching, but not as we know it
- How can we cut carbon footprint?
- Supper with Shakespeare
- Free adult learning taster sessions in borough’s libraries 9-15 May
- Kick off the summer with the Power Employment flower show
- Outdoor swimming pool opens for summer
- Standards Committee member wanted by Council
- Find out about Council services at Richmond Fair
- Comment on Shopfront Design Guide
- Your say wanted on how extensions are decided
- Pupils get ready to grow their own
- Volunteers are supporting community
- Borough smashes tree planting target
- Exclusively Richmond
Release Date: 20/05/2009
New affordable homes to be built
Permission has been given for four new affordable homes to be built in Whitton, replacing a set of lock up garages.
The Council’s planning committee approved plans from Richmond Housing Partnership to build three, three-bedroomed homes, and one four-bedroomed house on the site, adjacent to Ross Road.
All four will be two storeys high and all will be within the ‘affordable’ price bracket, for social rental, aimed at families on the Council’s housing waiting list.
Every home will have solar panels built in, as well as rainwater collection facilities and space for composting, as part of the Council’s drive to improve sustainability in new buildings.
Planning officers told the committee although knocking down the garages would mean a small loss of parking spaces, they had not been well used recently and it was not thought likely there would be an unacceptable level of extra on street parking.
Jon Freer, the Council’s Assistant Director for Environment, said “It’s well known there is a lack of affordable family homes in the borough. Young couples who have grown up here are often forced to move outside while they have children, at exactly the time when they need their own parents close at hand.
“The Council requires all new housing developments over 10 units to be 50 per cent affordable, so it’s very good to see all these homes will be within the price range of the majority of people.”
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