Saturday 22 March 2008

£10 MILLION to be spent on affordable housing in Tandridge.

Yes that's £10 whole million for 240 new homes across the district over the next four years. Superb news, and I know I am a little late on commenting on this one, (see the BBC's coverage) but it is a superb achievement for Conservative Tandridge.

Just so we are not to be accused of New Labour type spinning of constantly re-annoucing existing spending , that amount is is made up of a grant of £7.4million from the Housing Corporation announced last week for 195 homes oer the next three years together with £2.5million in the current financial year for 40 new homes.

And Oxted South is set to be one of the locations in Tandridge which will benefit from affordable homes, with two schemes already in an advanced stage of planning, which if approved will provide more than 20 new homes for local people.