{"id":8391,"date":"2017-01-26T15:03:57","date_gmt":"2017-01-26T15:03:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.southglos.gov.uk\/newsroom\/?p=8391"},"modified":"2017-01-31T15:57:58","modified_gmt":"2017-01-31T15:57:58","slug":"affordable-homes-development-officially-opened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.southglos.gov.uk\/newsroom\/community\/affordable-homes-development-officially-opened\/","title":{"rendered":"Affordable homes development officially opened"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A development of new homes for affordable rent has been officially opened in Yate.<\/p>\n<p>The 24 houses and apartments, at Kelston Close, were developed by local housing association Solon, which part funded the scheme together with the Government\u2019s Homes &amp; Communities Agency on land provided by South Gloucestershire Council.\u00a0 The new homes were built to a high standard including lifetime homes and Code for Sustainable Homes Level 3, by E G Carter &amp; Co Ltd. following the demolition of a former elderly persons\u2019 home.<\/p>\n<p>Paul Ville, Solon Housing Chief Executive, thanked South Gloucestershire Council for its support and patience during complex negotiations to save the scheme when the original developer pulled out. \u00a0He said, \u201cthe eventual completion of these much needed affordable homes for local families is largely thanks to this, and to excellent partnership working with the Council, the HCA and E G Carter &amp; Co Ltd.<\/p>\n<p>Cllr Ben Stokes, the Council\u2019s Adults, Housing and Public Health Lead Member congratulated Solon and EG Carter &amp; Co Ltd. on the completion of a good scheme, adding: \u201cSouth Gloucestershire Council and Solon have had a positive and successful relationship providing affordable homes for a number of years and I hope that this partnership will continue long into the future.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8411\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8411\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.southglos.gov.uk\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2017\/01\/egcarter_kelstonclose-0118.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-8411 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.southglos.gov.uk\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2017\/01\/egcarter_kelstonclose-0118-681x1024.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"962\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.southglos.gov.uk\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2017\/01\/egcarter_kelstonclose-0118-681x1024.jpg 681w, https:\/\/sites.southglos.gov.uk\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2017\/01\/egcarter_kelstonclose-0118-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/sites.southglos.gov.uk\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2017\/01\/egcarter_kelstonclose-0118-768x1154.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.southglos.gov.uk\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2017\/01\/egcarter_kelstonclose-0118-696x1046.jpg 696w, https:\/\/sites.southglos.gov.uk\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2017\/01\/egcarter_kelstonclose-0118-1068x1605.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/sites.southglos.gov.uk\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2017\/01\/egcarter_kelstonclose-0118-279x420.jpg 279w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8411\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">L -R, Phil Barnes from EG Carter, Paul Ville from Solon Housing and Cllr Ben Stokes at the hand over party.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A development of new homes for affordable rent has been officially opened in Yate. The 24 houses and apartments, at Kelston Close, were developed by local housing association Solon, which part funded the scheme together with the Government\u2019s Homes &amp; Communities Agency on land provided by South Gloucestershire Council.\u00a0 The new homes were built to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8401,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[541],"tags":[1631],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.southglos.gov.uk\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8391"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.southglos.gov.uk\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.southglos.gov.uk\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.southglos.gov.uk\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.southglos.gov.uk\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8391"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.southglos.gov.uk\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8441,"href":"https:\/\/sites.southglos.gov.uk\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8391\/revisions\/8441"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.southglos.gov.uk\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.southglos.gov.uk\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.southglos.gov.uk\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.southglos.gov.uk\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}