As a new community comprising of 2,500 homes west of Crawley, the site is one of the first in the UK to benefit from the Government's Get Britain Building programme, having received part of a £2.3m investment via the Homes and Communities Agency (HCA) to build new homes.
The first phase will deliver a collection 291 new homes and will include two-bedroom apartments and two, three and four-bedroom houses, as well as a new community area, known as the Gateway Village Green, plus a range of other municipal facilities including a neighbourhood park, play and sports area. Additional homes will then be delivered across a further four phases.
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Kilnwood Vale is thoroughly contemporary in concept but also draws on the principles of the Garden City movement, with tree-lined streets and generous amounts of green open space. External infrastructure, including cycle paths and bridleways will also be implemented from an early stage, fostering opportunities to use the wide outdoor spaces, and facilitating accessible links into Bewbush and across the A264 into Buchan Country Park.
The first phase has received funding from the HCA, the government's national housing and land agency, which is investing £570m nationally through the Get Britain Building Programme, enabling 12,000 new homes to be built across the country.
Ken Glendinning, Head of Area for Sussex at the HCA said: "The HCA has invested approximately £2.4m of government cash into Kilnwood Vale helping our partners Crest Nicholson to deliver more than 100 new houses for the local community here including 42 in the first phase for those on the housing needs list. In turn this is enabling building work to start for the wider development, which is not only great news for the local economy, but great news for people looking for a new home in the area."
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