Moat Housing Group has announced a £700,000 pilot scheme to build 10 homes for teachers in the grounds of a Kent school.
Kent county council donated land for the homes, which will be let at sub-market rents, from the grounds of Tunbridge Wells High School.

The development will be followed by similar schemes in the same county, for teachers in Sittingbourne and Canterbury.

Moat plans to build up to 100 homes in Kent over the next two to three years using council land.

Moat, which also administers a £26m starter home initiative for key workers, has applied for planning permission for the Tunbridge Wells scheme.

The timber-frame apartments, designed by Cattell Skinner Design Partnership, will use a high degree of off-site manufacturing techniques and should take 20 weeks to build.

Chris Cheeseman, Moat's executive director for new business, said: "This partnership between ourselves and Kent County Council will provide much-needed accommodation at affordable rent levels in an expensive part of Kent for 10 teachers, followed in future by more schemes of the same nature in other parts of the country."

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Housing Today