A REGIONAL housing association has bought a site in Hopwood and has unveiled plans to build 34 new affordable homes on the land.
The area acquired by Bromford, just off the A441 near Bromsgrove, was a former piggery but most recently was used for storage. The site received full planning permission following an appeal last year.
The new homes would comprise a mix of 17 three-bedroom houses, 13 two-bedroom houses and four one-bedroom maisonettes. All 34 homes would be available for social rent.
Bromford’s head of land, Lyndon Parkes, said: “We’re delighted to have completed the acquisition of this site in Hopwood.
“With planning permission already in place we will be able to begin work on the construction of these new rental homes for local people in the next few months.
“As the country’s largest developer of social rent homes, we’ve made a commitment to continue providing as many homes of this tenure as we can.
“We know this is especially important in areas like Bromsgrove where house prices are more than ten times higher than average incomes and private rents have increased by more than ten per cent in the past year.
“By delivering 34 new social rent homes in the village, this development will ensure that local residents who have been priced out of the private rental market can continue to live and thrive within their community.”
He added the association had an ambitions goal to construct 11,000 homes across the West Midlands and West of England over the next eight years.
“We want to deliver more of these homes ourselves so will continue to seek new opportunities to secure more sites to drive our development programme forward.”
Bromford is the country’s leading developer of social rent homes, completing 551 in 2023-24 and 1,926 over the past four years.
Yesterday, we reported how Bromford has already joined forces with Vistry to build 688 homes in Longbridge – a total of 40 per cent of those would be affordable. Click here for more on that story.
