AFFORDABLE HOUSING

Applications for the housing have now closed and the units have been allocated. Tenants and part-purchasers were scheduled to move in before Christmas 2006. 

A total of 101 applications were received for the housing of which 73 were for the rented accommodation, 8 for the shared ownership accommodation and 20 were for either. Seven of these applications were withdrawn before allocation.

Of the remaining 94 applications 49  were from applicant households with no local connection. There were 15 applications from residents of neighbouring villages who would have been elegible had there been too few local applicants.

There were 30 applicant households with truly local connections, and it was from this group that the successful candidates were chosen.