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May 2023
New Ripon homes given to families on council waiting list
Three new council houses built on the site of former garages in Ripon are now being occupied by local families, the council has announced.
North Yorkshire Council said the homes, in Holmefield Road, have been allocated to people on the waiting list for houses.
They each have two or three bedrooms and feature air source heat pumps, solar panels and triple glazing, producing between 0.2 and 0.3 tonnes of carbon dioxide per year compared with the six tonnes produced by an average home.
Claire Edwards, who will move into one of the houses with partner Sharon this weekend, has been a council tenant for 32 years. She said:
The houses are the latest to be developed in a scheme which uses council-owned land used to create new homes, which are then let as social housing.
Almost 60 homes across Harrogate and Craven have been developed through the scheme in the last five years using £2.3 million of government funding. A further nine homes are being developed in the Harrogate district: seven in Harrogate and two in Sharow.
The three Ripon homes are the first to be occupied since North Yorkshire Council took responsibility for housing when Harrogate Borough Council, which had originally granted planning permission, was abolished at the end of March.
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North Yorkshire Council’s executive member for housing, Cllr Simon Myers, said:
Matthew Wright, from the government's housing agency Homes England, added:
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