Hundreds of new homes that locals can afford to live in will be built across B&NES, Council Leaders have promised. 

Liberal Democrats say they are proud to be delivering on their manifesto pledge to deliver the first new Council houses in a generation as 6,000 households wait for social housing. 

Cabinet bosses recently approved a £12.1 million programme for the first 58 social rented properties on eight sites. 

Councillor Tom Davies told his cabinet colleagues on November 10th: “Never has the need for new Council houses been so great. 

“As an area with some of the least affordable housing in the country, thousands of our local residents are currently on our social housing waiting list, hundreds of them in the categories of highest need.

“The Council has and will continue to play a key role in enabling new social and affordable housing to be built. 

“But the scale of the need means that it is vital that the Council now plays a new role and takes on a new responsibility – a role in which it utilises some of its own assets and becomes responsible for directly delivering and owning new Council houses for social rent for our residents.

“Over the coming months we will be developing plans for the delivery of hundreds of additional Council houses in our area over the coming years.”

Stephen Sumner, LDRS