Starter homes plans to boost first time buyers

10-Oct-2005

Carlisle Housing Association (CHA) is considering plans to save a number of unused flats from demolition and transform them in to affordable homes for first time buyers.

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Proposals to provide the area's aspiring homeowners with an affordable way of getting on the first rung of the property ladder have been welcomed and are hoped to be approved by the CHA.

Despite current plans to remove the flats to make way for larger properties, mounting support for the starter homes scheme may influence the CHA's decisions and boost Carlisle's first time buyers.

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Local MPs and estate agents are in favour of the project and have urged the housing authority to approve the construction of these homes, estimated to sell for around £45,000 each.

"If they went on the market a lot of people would want to purchase them - not only young people but pensioners," Carlisle MP Eric Martlew told Cumbria Online.

"They would be sold at a discount to local people, with a covenant that the same conditions would apply when they were sold on."

The CHA is currently considering the proposals and said it recognised the importance of providing affordable housing options for local people.

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