MP Opens TWO £1 MILLION HOUSING PROJECTS OPEN IN BISHOP AUCKLAND
HELEN GOODMAN MP
PRESS RELEASE
09 November 2007
** For immediate release**
This afternoon Helen Goodman MP opened two £1 million affordable housing projects in her Bishop Auckland constituency.
The two new developments – in Coney Avenue, Bishop Auckland, and Tannery Lane, Barnard Castle, – will provide vital affordable, durable and environmentally-friendly accommodation.
In Coney Avenue, Helen opened a scheme to provide safe and secure accommodation and support services to young teenage parents. The development includes nine two-bedroom apartments, a communal building for associated support, and staff are on hand virtually twenty-four hours a day.
Helen said: “It is very important that pregnant women and new mothers are physically healthy and do not suffer undue stress, both for themselves and for their children
“I am sure that good quality housing like will help young mothers stay healthy and to avoid unnecessary anxiety’.
The ten apartment development at Tannery Lane also provides vital affordable housing for the rural community, and is built to the Government’s high environmental standards.
Helen said: ‘I am delighted to open this excellent housing development which combines good design with affordability. I am particularly pleased with the high environmental standards of this development, and I welcome the addition of further social housing, which is essential to maintain the vitality of the local area’.
The two projects are financed through The Housing Corporation: the Government Agency committed to building an additional 70,000 more affordable homes per year by 2010-11.
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