Lance helps kick off new home (From St Helens Star)
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St Helens Lance Hohaia helps kick off new homes for Barratt Homes
10:00am Saturday 21st July 2012 in News
Lance meets youngsters from Blackbrook Rugby Club
SAINTS ace Lance Hohaia joined Mayor of St Helens, Councillor Geoff Almond, to celebrate the ‘kick off’ of more new homes in St Helens.
Barratt Homes had invited the mayor and Lance to join pupils from Eaves Primary School for the launch of Delph Wood in Sutton.
The youngsters had taken part in a competition to design a series of pictures, which are on permanent display in the sales office.
Young players from Blackbrook Rugby Club also attended, and were delighted to meet Lance, who said: “It is great to see such a large turnout. Barratt has done a great job of involving the community in the work it’s doing here, which is evident when you see how many people have come along.”
Cllr Almond, who cut the ribbon to formally open the development, said: “The area needed an injection of new housing stock, and Barratt’s development at Delph Wood greatly improves opportunities for St Helens residents to own their own quality homes.”
The development on Ridgewood Drive features a range of two, three and four bedroom homes throughout, all created, says Barratt, with homebuyers in mind, using extensive market research and customer feedback to ensure the best shapes, sizes and features are included in every home.
Comments(3)
anthonywilson
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6:08pm Sun 22 Jul 12
What I'm more interested to know Papyt is what price St Helens Council sold the land to Barratt for and when did the deal go through for the sale?
It was rumoured back in 2002 that Barratt had bought the site then before the community centre that once stood there was closed and demolished.Will the Sutton area ever see any of this money directly invested back into the area in improving community facilities and services etc, particularly as the last remaining community facility for Sutton once stood on this site. After all, don't the families and parents moving into the new houses need somewhere for the kids to go whatever the weather and considering there was such a good response and input from the children at Blackbrook Rugby Club and Eaves Primary school? As there are several primary schools in the Sutton area maybe St Helens Council could invest some money in building a new community facility or even a public library especially with Sutton being one of the few areas of the town to not have one. After all, there used to be two public libraries in Sutton, including one that was on the site of this new housing development until they were both bulldozed.
papyt
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7:42am Mon 23 Jul 12
papyt says...
1:52pm Sun 22 Jul 12