Affordable

Meanwhile at the Town Hall Thirteen Group, who run Orchid House in Sowerby and similar elsewhere, were holding a public viewing of plans to build 97 affordable houses in a group on Sowerby Gateway, this to put right to some extent the failure of for-profit developers to provide the affordable units that should have been part of the whole development. Thirteen Group is a not-for-profit organization and have taken advantage of the lack of a need for profit to make a design with lower density, featuring a tree-lined boulevard which “references historic Sowerby”, in other words is based on the trees that line Front Street (and drop sticky stuff onto parked cars in the summertime).The site is close to the railway line, but this can be addressed with triple glazing. The mix of housing, from bungalows to 4-bedroom houses, has been worked out with the District Council to reflect need….