First time buyers in Castle Point will soon get a much-needed boost when £1million is used to create an estate of cheap homes within the borough.
The affordable houses, to be built over the next two years at one of four earmarked sites, will also attract interest from low income families.
One councillor anticipates the creation of a housing estate, similar to the council estates of years ago.
The move comes as the demand for homes in the South East reaches new heights and already built up areas, such as Basildon and Chelmsford, begin to refuse further developments.
Canvey councillor Ray Howard, a member of the borough's improvements committee, said: "For a while Government policy meant that every time we built any new houses, we would have to build a certain per centage of them as affordable houses.
"This has caused many problems for the people living in such areas, so now we are given the money to build specific affordable housing areas."
Published Thursday August 5, 2004
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