Posts Tagged ‘housing’

Welcoming New Homes Cash for Great Yarmouth

  The Government has given Great Yarmouth Borough Council a welcome £1/2 million boost, as part of the New Homes Bonus. The New Homes Bonus is a multi-billion pound programme that rewards communities when they accept more housebuilding in their area, with extra reward for building new affordable homes, and for getting long-term empty homes back into use. This is just one of the policies the Government has introduced to help resolve the current housing crisis. These

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Call for more house building

New affordable homes needed

It’s alarming to hear the housing market in Norfolk is becoming so inaccessible to first time buyers. Developers should take advantage of new rules to help them build more affordable homes. The fact is that not enough affordable homes are being built. Currently supply comes nowhere near to the demand; as such, prices inevitably rise and with need for larger deposits, many families will struggle to buy their own home Although it is important that

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New Homes Bonus for Norfolk

This week Grant Shapps, Minister for Housing and Local Government, announced that Norfolk County Council will be receiving £799,055 on 15 April as the final allocation of the New Homes Bonus for Year 1 of the scheme (2011/12). The New Homes Bonus will fulfil the Coalition Government’s commitment to provide local authorities with real incentives to deliver housing growth. This means that for every new housing addition in Great Yarmouth and Norfolk the council will

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