Harlow Council is delivering on its mission to ‘rebuild our town’ with construction moving at pace all over the town on new high-quality council homes for families on its Housing Needs Register.
Phase 1 of the programme has seen new homes completed at Bushey Croft and The Hill, with a total of 18 homes built, and a further 50 will soon be ready to welcome Harlow families at Staple Tye and The Woodleys.
In addition to these, work is now underway on at Elm Hatch, the former Sherards House site, the Yorkes, Arkwrights and Pytt Field with work soon beginning on the site of the former Potter Street Neighbourhood Office.
The council is currently building more council homes than in the past 30 years combined. All are built to the highest possible standards of quality and energy efficiency, all going to Harlow families on the Housing needs Register.
The homes currently under construction are being built in partnership with Hill Group via the Harlow Regeneration Partnership and will revitalise former derelict and left behind sites.
Progress on the programme’s first phase was presented to Cabinet last week (10 July).
Commenting on the progress, Councillor Dan Swords, Leader of Harlow Council, said:
“Our Building Harlow Future plan clearly sets out that we will successfully complete phase 1 of our council house building programme. This will deliver much-needed council homes at social rents to meet the growing demand in Harlow and revitalise place where our residents live.
“Our progress to date puts us firmly on track to successfully complete this first phase in our once-in-a-generation council housebuilding programme and, with so much work already completed and much more to come, we will soon have new, high-quality council homes for Harlow families. Alongside our changes to how we allocate council homes, every single one of these new homes will go to Harlow families.
“And we are set to go much further, with work already taking place behind the scenes to identify suitable sites for even more. We will deliver on our mission to rebuild our town, make a genuine, positive difference to people’s lives and build Harlow’s future.”