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The £1.7-million building scheme – excluding land costs – by national award winning Rosemullion Homes of Truro, is fully under way at Trinity Watch, off Higher Trewidden Road with completion expected within a few months.
Eleven are private homes for sale and four are ‘social housing’ for rent for Penwith Housing Association (PHA) and Devon & Cornwall Housing Association (DCHA).
The tenants of the two new 2-bed houses and two 2-bed flats (one for disabled) will be nominated by Penwith District Council.
The council chairman, Councillor Joan Tanner, commented after a ‘progress’ visit to the site: I think they are absolutely beautiful and the new tenants will be fortunate people. The rooms are large and there is excellent workmanship in construction”.
Deputy Mayor of St Ives, Councillor Yvonne Watson was also pleasedthat PHA, Rosemullion Homes and the Penwith Council had worked together to ensure “that there is affordable housing integrated with such high specification homes”.
“I am delighted too, to note that at least one unit is being adapted for a local disabled person’s specific requirements and also that a flat is earmarked for someone ‘downsizing’, which will result in a 4-bedroomed house being made available to a local homeless family. All of which will be beneficial for the people of St Ives.”
The civic leaders were in a group that toured the site with PHA Chair Gail Hunt, Chief Executive, Andy Moore and others including Rosemullion Homes’ Construction Director, Ray Trebilcock and Site Manager, James Smith. Mr Moore thanked Penwith and St Ives councils for their commitment and support to affordable homes for the housing associations.
“The homes are due to be completed in March” said Duncan Cumberland, Land Director for Rosemullion Homes. The 3, 4, and 5-bedroom homes for private sale range up to about £600,000:two have already been sold.
The four for PHA have come through the planning consent with ‘social rent for local needs’, seamlessly integrated into the whole scheme with high quality work.
Ahead lie social housing schemes for DCHA at St Just-in-Roseland, St Breward and Grampound (a large development scheme at the former tannery site) by Rosemullion Home, a Cornish housebuilder, who this year has gained the accolade of UK’s Housebuilder of the Year at the What House? Awards in London.
Pictured in the photograph above from left to right are:
Andy Moore, Chief Executive of PHA; Norman Emberson, PHA board member; Joan Tanner, Chairman of Penwith District Council;Yvonne Watson, Deputy Mayor, St Ives Town Council; Gail Hunt, Chair of PHA; Ray Trebilcock, Construction Director of Rosemullion Homes
