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MP helps GreenSquare celebrate 10,000 home milestone

 
 
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Chippenham MP Duncan Hames unveiled a commemorative plaque to celebrate local housing group GreenSquare reaching 10,000 homes in ownership and management.

The 10,000 home milestone was celebrated on Friday (15 July) with a reception at Chippenham Town Hall and a short ceremony nearby at one of GreenSquare's newest developments – nine family homes at Avonside, on Westmead Lane in the town centre.

Designed by Aaron Evans Architects and built by EG Carter & Co, the striking £1.4 million Avonside development (supported with social housing grant of £855,000) is in a prime waterside location in Chippenham. The new development meets level 4 of the code for sustainable homes and comprises one four-bedroom house and eight three-bedroom houses for rent by Westlea Housing, part of GreenSquare Group.

"I think everyone who drives by will see a very clear message about the quality of the developments that GreenSquare is determined to continue," said Duncan Hames.

"These great new homes have been built on the site of a homeless hostel that was unpopular, unsightly and unsustainable and has since been replaced with other high quality purpose-built flats in other locations in and around Chippenham," said Westlea's managing director Ann Cornelius.

"Many of the new residents of these new homes have moved from living in small flats, so the size of the new houses and the benefit of useful and practical outside space has been particularly welcomed."

GreenSquare was formed in April 2008 and includes Chippenham-based housing association Westlea Housing and Oxford Citizens Housing Association (OCHA), a commercial subsidiary called Oakus Estates, and the construction firm Tidestone. GreenSquare also works in partnership with Kevin McCloud's company Hab in the joint venture Hab Oakus.

GreenSquare’s innovative housing and development schemes include the Hab Oakus Triangle development in Swindon, which was visited last summer by the Housing Minister, Grant Shapps MP. Other significant development schemes in progress or recently completed include the redevelopment of the former police station site in west Swindon, the regeneration of Rose Hill in Oxford and Braydon Court in Swindon, and the development of new homeless accommodation in Salisbury.

 







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[published online 30/6/11]