£2.8m Affordable Housing Project Gets Green Light

Twenty-two affordably-priced town centre flats for older people will be built in Egremont after a £2.8m social housing project received the final green light.

Social enterprise and housing developer, Home Group has secured investment of £660,000 from the Homes and Communities Agency (HCA) to allow the new development designed for older people to go ahead. Ehen Court will consist of 22 modern two-bedroom residential flats, a communal lounge and an office with a scheme manager service. It will be located at the site of a now demolished sheltered housing complex.


Planning permission was received earlier this year and the key contractor is Thomas Armstrong Construction.

Building work will now begin at the end of January, with lucky residents getting keys to their new homes approximately one year later.

Elsa Brailey, Home Group's Acting Head of Development said: "Home Group aims to become a top ten house-builder in the next ten years and we’re absolutely committed to supporting communities where people want to live. Everyone in our Whitehaven office was delighted to receive this news. These flats have an excellent location – right in the town centre - and we look forward to seeing our contractors on site later this month."

(CD/GK)