Housing Corporation land
Sir,—With so many young couples wanting to own their own homes, why does the Housing Corporation have to build State rental homes on all of its land. The land it has developed between Kellys Road and Fortune Street has 48 sections and a lovely rural outlook which would be an ideal spot not only for rented homes but also for first home owners. One section which backs on to Kellys Road and Chilton Drive is apparently going to be for about 10 one and a half storey units. If the corporation has to have a complex in one corner of the land, why can it not build small single storey units for the elderly who are taking up large Housing Corporation homes because they have nowhere else to go. I hope the Housing Corporation will give this a lot of thought before letting the tenders. — Yours, etc., Mrs RUTH MITCHELL. September 10, 1985. [Mr C. E. Consedine, manager (rental housing) of the Housing Corporation, replies: “As completion of the Kellys Road/Fortune Street sections is still some months away, it will be some time before we address the use of land. The corporation is sympathetic to a balanced development and with this in mind is hopeful that a number of sections will be available for sale to home-seekers. The corporation is well aware of the reservations of neighbours to housing complexes and these will be borne in mind when the question of complexes is addressed. The corporation is also aware of the value of better utilisation and would be hopeful that a number of our current tenants would vacate larger accommodation to move to the smaller units we would hope to provide.”]
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