Eden Housing Association is a successful small independent Registered Provider of affordable homes with a rural focus. They operate across North Cumbria owning and/or managing around 1,982 homes for affordable rent or sale, and act as Managing Agents for Mitre Housing Association and Lyvennet Community Trust.
The project involved the construction of 7 new two storey affordable rented homes on a greenfield site. The development, in the Lake District National Park at the foot of Blencathra, consists of 2No. 3-bedroom houses, 4No. 2-bedroom houses and 1No. 1-bedroom house.
The houses are traditional masonry blockwork with rendered elevations, slate roof with mock dormers and mock chimneys and feature stone porches to the front elevation. Externally each house has a garden to the rear and parking to the front, there is also some open space around the properties which has been grass seeded, giving the properties a spacious rural aspect.
CLIENT: Eden Housing Association VALUE: £965,000 COMPLETION: February 2019
DURATION: 46 weeks CONTRACT: JCT Intermediate