More affordable homes now on track for Alton

Sentinel Housing Association have received planning permission for a new affordable housing scheme in Alton. Sentinel has put together the former Alton Day Centre and railway embankment sites in Chawton Park Road to make best use of the land to be able to build this much needed housing for local people.

Sentinel worked closely with local residents, councillors and East Hampshire District Council (EHDC) planners and housing officers to ensure that the final plans will create a high quality, well designed development. The approved scheme of 54 affordable homes will provide a mix of homes for rent and other tenures, like part buy/ part rent, that will provide local people with an opportunity to rent and buy in Alton through EHDCs housing waiting list.

Executive Director Bill Flood said “We are very pleased to have received planning permission for this important affordable housing development in Alton. We have worked very hard to make sure we’re providing the right mix of new homes for local people to a design that addressed the concerns of local residents and councillors on an earlier planning application that was refused. We listened carefully and took on board what people said to us and are now looking forward to creating a mixed community that compliments the local area with homes for families, couples, single people and some lovely one and two bed apartments for older people.”