Delivering affordable accommodation

Last year, 275 new affordable homes were delivered across West Berkshire.

Affordable housing is housing for sale or rent for people whose needs are not met by the market. It provides help for households in housing need including key workers by providing affordable rented homes and a subsidised route to home ownership, which may be beyond the reach of many households in the district.

Many of the new homes were delivered through the completion of a new 119-property development in Sterling Gardens, Newbury.

Sterling Gardens offers one, two and three-bedroom flats tailored to accommodate families on the housing list. There are 27 designated for social rent and 62 for affordable rent which will be available to those on West Berkshire Council's Housing Register. A further 30 are shared ownership properties. All homes will be managed by a housing association.

Alongside this, properties at Weavers Yard in Newbury and other developments delivered by housing associations in the district have contributed to our achievement of exceeding our affordable housing target last year.

Delivery of more homes that people can afford is a commitment made in the Council Strategy 2023-27 and this will contribute towards the goal of providing more than 1,000 new affordable homes by 2030.