Newport’s Loftus Garden Village named best New Development in Welsh Housing Awards


Loftus Garden Village –


an outstanding


neighbourhood transformed


new


which has a derelict


industrial site in the heart of Newport - has taken the New Development title at this year’s Welsh Housing Awards. Organised by Institute of


village-style green space, to so


that it brings the countryside into the city. Ranging from one-bedroom apartments family


houses,


the Chartered Housing Cymru,


the awards – presented at the Vale Hotel in Cardiff - honour Wales’ highest quality and most innovative housing schemes. ‘Hugely impressive’ The judging Newport’s


panel said modern site of the Pirelli Cable Factory: design of garden


village which is creating 250 Arts and Crafts-style homes on the


hugely impressive, self-funded development combines outstanding


and an


emphasis on nature with effective use of technology for enhanced safety and energy efficiency.” The landmark scheme is being delivered by a partnership of homes provider Pobl Group,


housebuilder Lovell


and Newport City Council. Featuring properties of exceptional build-quality and design, the development has been carefully landscaped with tree-lined roads and features such as


a central pond and 12 and


well as properties market and rent


with 19


available on a the


shared ownership as for social,


intermediate homes


development also


basis. Sixty per cent of homes at


cooperative are


affordable, making a significant contribution to cutting the local housing waiting list. Also notable is the fact that the affordable homes have been delivered using cross subsidy from the outright sale and shared ownership properties,


59 properties. The overall development is expected to be complete in summer 2018. Rhys Parry, Pobl director of development (east), says: “We are over the moon to have won this award for Loftus Garden Village.


Pobl’s vision


for Loftus Garden Village was to create an outstanding mixed tenure development where people would aspire to live, by transforming a run down area into what has now become one of the


Newport City Council, Lovell and the Welsh Assembly Government, so a big thank you to everybody involved in creating such a special place.” Kate Rees,


Lovell regional


managing director, says: “Our team are extremely proud to have had the opportunity to work alongside Pobl and Newport


help create this stunning new community.


City Council to Both its homes


for sale and the affordable properties have attracted


former “This


four-bedroom there


are homes for open market sale


with no requirement for social housing grant from the Welsh Government. The Lovell team has


so far


most desirable Newport.


completed


work on 191 homes at Loftus Garden Village with work well under way on the remaining


postcodes in


“Congratulations must also go to our many partners. Loftus Garden Village is the result of over a decade of hard work and close


collaboration with


exceptional interest, with each phase of development quickly selling out, but this award also recognises that the scheme has been successful on a wide range of levels, from its imaginative village-style design to the focus on engaging and benefitting the local community.” Community involvement has been a key factor in the development


of history, naming the Garden


Village project with strong emphasis on celebrating the site’s


including the


in honour of Newport’s Ruby Loftus. Local resident


her job at


of the development Ruby


gained fame in the 1940s when she was painted by war artist Dame Laura Knight carrying out


the Royal


Ordnance factory which once stood on the housing site. Her story has been commemorated through a series of community projects linked to the housing scheme. The project team has also ensured benefits for current residents by creating employment


and training


opportunities for local people including 20 completions;


apprenticeship 121 work


experience placements (including placements for students from Coleg Gwent) and a number of jobs for local unemployed people.


New Homes Wales and the South West


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