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Thurrock Council continues to invest in council homes

7 December 2021
Thurrock Council continues to invest in council homes as a planning application to build 4 new properties in Chadwell St Mary is given the green light.
The plans to build the homes on Loewen Road were approved by Planning Committee on Thursday 2 December. The new 3-bedroom properties will replace a single house to offer 4 Thurrock households modern and sustainable family homes in the council's continued effort to help meet the affordable housing needs of the borough.

Final properties handed over at Claudian Way

23 February 2021
Twenty-two Thurrock households have been given the keys to high-quality, affordable council homes in the final handover phase of Thurrock Council's Claudian Way development.
The keys to the remaining council homes at Chadwell St Mary were handed over to Thurrock residents this month, as part of the council's £32million investment in new council homes for affordable rent for people on the borough's housing register.

29 new council homes for Thurrock residents

8 July 2020
Thurrock Council has handed over the keys to 29 much-needed high-quality council homes for Thurrock residents.
Alma Court is an award winning development that has transformed the former Tops Club site in Grays, providing high quality social housing that is sustainable and fitted-out to a top specification, with generous space standards for residents to enjoy.

Working with residents to shape Thurrock housing ambitions

3 June 2020
Thurrock Council's Cabinet member for housing, Cllr Barry Johnson, has announced that Derry Avenue and the Humber Avenue/Garron Lane sites will no longer be considered as possible locations for development following resident feedback.
Cllr Johnson said: "I can confirm that Thurrock Council will no longer explore the possibility of developing housing on Derry Avenue and the Humber Avenue/Garron Lane sites.

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