Housing Minister, Stephen Williams, and local MP, Andrew Stunell, opened England’s 4 millionth social and affordable home in Marple last week with Stockport Homes.
Commenting, Andrew Stunell said:
“I’m delighted that Stockport is once again being recognised nationally as a leading council with Stockport Homes as a great provider of homes at affordable rents for local residents”.
Stephen Williams, Housing Minister at the
Department for Communities & Local
Government, commented on the visit:
“It was a pleasure to visit Marple to open the
Peacefield development. To see firsthand the great
work Stockport Homes are doing by providing
affordable homes for local families there really was
motivating. Stockport is setting a golden example
of how to get it right.”
Stockport Homes brought the development on
Peacefield forward for residential development in
2012 and it has benefitted from over £400,000 from
the Government’s Affordable Homes Programme.
Locally Stockport has received over £10 million from the Affordable Homes Programme, which has helped to deliver nearly 500 affordable homes for people in Stockport since 2011.
98,000 affordable homes have been delivered nationally through the programme since it started in 2011, which is more than half way toward the target of 170,000 by 2015.