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25 April 2008

CONSULTATIONS on plans to provide than 100 homes for local people on modest incomes will open on 17 January.

Taunton Deane Borough Council's Housing Enabling Team is working with landowners the National Trust and developers Summerfield Homes on a project to build up to 120 homes on a site at the top of Cheddon Road near the Wellsprings Centre.

On Thursday 17 January the public will be invited to look at the proposals and have their say at a special consultation day at Ladymead School.

The event opens at 3.30pm and runs until 7.30pm giving people the opportunity to talk to the partners involved with the scheme – the developers, the National Trust and Taunton Deane Borough Council representatives.

The partners hope that the event will be of particular interest to would-be buyers who cannot afford to step on the property ladder.

The cost of the homes – a mix of one and and two-bedroom properties – is expected to start at £69,000 for full owner occupation.

The development would be aimed at single people and couples in Taunton who want to own their own home but cannot afford to pay the full market price.

The developers and the National Trust were brought together by Taunton Deane Borough Council's Housing Enabling Team who constantly monitor potential affordable housing sites to help meet growing local demand.

There are 4,600 people on the Council's housing waiting list with some applicants having to wait up to six years for a home to become available.

Any development on the two-acre site, owned by the National Trust, would be subject to the full planning process.

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