Sixty three new homes on school site

 

£10M new affordable homes for former school site

The Mayor of Bracknell Forest Councillor Chris Turrell is set to officially open a new £10M housing development on a site previously part of Brakenhale School.

A total of 63 homes have been built at the site at Rectory Lane which will provide a mix of one and two bedroom apartments and three and four bedroom family homes.  All of the homes will be let at either social or affordable rent.

The scheme was built to the Government’s Code for Sustainable Homes Level three and 46 of the homes on site will have their heating and hot water powered by environmentally-friendly air source heat pumps.

National affordable housing provider Affinity Sutton, which has around 136 homes in Bracknell Forest, teamed up with Berkeley Homes, Bracknell Forest Borough Council and the Government’s Homes and Communities Agency to build the scheme.  The development received more than £7M in Government housing grant.

Affinity Sutton’s other developments in Bracknell Forest include The Parks, Jennetts Park, Mount Lane and Wykery Copse.

Joyce Ferguson, Regional Development Director for Affinity Sutton, said:  “As a business for social purpose Affinity Sutton is committed to helping people put down roots and creating places for communities to thrive.   We are delighted to be celebrating the opening of Chadwick Mews with the Mayor and Mayoress and very grateful to our partners for working with us to help us deliver these much-needed affordable new homes.”  

Mayor Chris Turrell said:  “I look forward to opening this development and to seeing the environmentally-friendly features built into it.”