Winchester City Council set to return to building homes (From Hampshire Chronicle)

Winchester City Council set to return to building homes

10:18am Wednesday 25th January 2012 in Winchester By Emma Streatfield

Winchester City Council set to return to building homes

WINCHESTER City Council chiefs are to consider a target of building a minimum 30 new council homes in the next five years.

The portfolio holder for strategic housing and landlord services, councillor Tony Coates, said at a meeting of the full council that new funding arrangements under the government’s self financing proposals for the Housing Revenue Account will provide the opportunity for building new council homes on a small scale.

The proposal will consider the proposal to be set out through the Housing Revenue Account Business Plan to the cabinet housing committee in February.

It was also reported that at least three new council homes would be built and let within the next six months.