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Hostel for homeless and new flats to be built in Dacorum (From Watford Observer)
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Hostel for homeless and new flats to be built in Dacorum
12:40pm Thursday 25th October 2012 in News
By Rebecca Perring, Reporter
Plans to build new homes in Apsley have been passed as part of Dacorum Borough Council's plans to invest £14 miillion in new council homes.
The one-bedroom and two-bedroom flats, to be built in London Road, will provide a further 36 homes.
This is part of council plans to provide 71 new council homes and a hostel for the homeless to help address the need for affordable housing in Dacorum within the next three years.
At a cabinet meeting on Tuesday (October 23) the council secured £1.5m of funding from the Homes and Communities Agency (HCA) which will contribute to the cost of developing new homes, hoped to be completed in 2015.
The proposed developments for 71 new homes and a minimum 33-bed hostel make up the first phase of the council’s housing new build programme.
Councillor Margaret Griffiths, portfolio holder for housing, said: "This is just the start of ongoing plans to build more much-needed affordable housing in Dacorum.
"We know there is a big demand for affordable housing within our borough and we are making it a priority to provide new homes for people who really need it."
Comments(6)
Hornets number 12 fan
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1:42pm Thu 25 Oct 12
stuegs wrote:That is a moronic post! Homeless people are all workshy are they? When the bedroom tax on Housing Benefit comes in next year they will need to build a lot more of them! And working people get housing benefit too before your start again with more sweeping generalisations! People like you make me sick they just sit at their PC's and snipe at those worse off then themselves! You should be ashamed of yourself.
Great, hostel for the homeless. Another freebie for the workshy, lazy, alcoholic and those that refuse to make positive contributions to society.
garston tony
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3:00pm Thu 25 Oct 12
stuegs wrote:First prize for most ignorant comment of the week goes to...... YOU.
Great, hostel for the homeless. Another freebie for the workshy, lazy, alcoholic and those that refuse to make positive contributions to society.
People from all sorts of backgrounds can become homeless including people I would happily wager have contributed far more to society than you.
I've helped individuals and families who have become homeless for economic reasons or relationship breakdowns who have ended up in homeless accommodation which they have had to pay for themselves as they were in employment.
Are there work shy, feckless dole spongers in these places. Yes, but not everyone is by any stretch of the imagination
gasguzzler
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4:05pm Thu 25 Oct 12
stuegs wrote:Fortunately most people have some compassion for those who are less fortunate than themselves.
Great, hostel for the homeless. Another freebie for the workshy, lazy, alcoholic and those that refuse to make positive contributions to society.
Anyone through no fault of their own could suffer a stroke of bad luck and end up in a hostel.
You'd do we'll to remember than.
stuegs
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10:07pm Thu 25 Oct 12
You lot are too easy
Hornets number 12 fan
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10:18pm Thu 25 Oct 12
stuegs wrote:And you're a troll
Blah blah blah....
You lot are too easy
stuegs says...
1:24pm Thu 25 Oct 12