New homes unveiled in Bolsover as £14.7million council project is complete

The final council house in a four-year building project has been completed and handed over in Bolsover.
Pictured is (left to right) Councillor Steve Fritchley, Leader of Bolsover District Council, Councillor Sandra Peake, Cabinet Member for Housing of Bolsover District Council, David Pearson, Robert Woodhead Ltd and Councillor Duncan McGregor, Deputy Leader of Bolsover District Council and Grant Galloway, Director of Development of Bolsover District Council outside the new flats at The Paddock, Bolsover.Pictured is (left to right) Councillor Steve Fritchley, Leader of Bolsover District Council, Councillor Sandra Peake, Cabinet Member for Housing of Bolsover District Council, David Pearson, Robert Woodhead Ltd and Councillor Duncan McGregor, Deputy Leader of Bolsover District Council and Grant Galloway, Director of Development of Bolsover District Council outside the new flats at The Paddock, Bolsover.
Pictured is (left to right) Councillor Steve Fritchley, Leader of Bolsover District Council, Councillor Sandra Peake, Cabinet Member for Housing of Bolsover District Council, David Pearson, Robert Woodhead Ltd and Councillor Duncan McGregor, Deputy Leader of Bolsover District Council and Grant Galloway, Director of Development of Bolsover District Council outside the new flats at The Paddock, Bolsover.

Bolsover District Council embarked on the £14.7million programme in 2015 to build more than 100 high quality, energy efficient homes.

A total of 14 sites have been built on across the district from South Normanton to Clowne and Blackwell to Shirebrook.

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The final site, started in 2019 at The Paddock in Bolsover, saw 12 new flats and landscaped open spaces mark the end of the four-year new build programme.

Bolsover District Council’s cabinet member for housing, councillor Sandra Peake, said: “Unveiling these 12 lovely flats in Bolsover makes all the hard work and effort worthwhile.

"We have had some challenges and head scratching moments along the way, but with the support and expertise of Robert Woodhead Ltd, we always knew we would achieve our target.”

The first spade hit the ground at Rogers Avenue in Creswell on November 28, 2015, where seven properties where built on an old garage site.

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Throughout the life of the contract, the programme has brought many pockets of land that attracted anti-social behaviour back into use.

The former Blackwell Hotel Site which contained asbestos, Japanese knotweed and was an eyesore, saw six new high quality family homes built to help meet local housing need.

Hill Top in Shirebrook was the largest development. 37 new homes now occupy the 3.5 acre site which had lain dormant for many years and is one of the steepest sites in the district.

Over the course of the programme, the council overcame many challenges to deliver the housing programme.

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Councillor Peake added: “The key was to make sure we not only achieved it, but we provided high quality, sustainable homes that met our local community’s needs and we have certainly done that.

“Some said we would never achieve it, others said it was too ambitious. But we did it.

"And not only did we do it, we are expanding on the scheme and planning to build up to another 400 council properties over the next four years.”

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