Affordable housing for high-priced Hampshire

With demand for housing in Hartley Wintney being at its highest, some local people are being priced out of home ownership. Aiming to provide affordable housing to allow local people to get on to the property ladder at a reduced cost, we've been working with Bewley Homes at the beautiful Hartley Row Park development.

Hartley Row Park is a development of 95 new one, two three, four and five bedroom homes in an attractive landscaped setting on the edge of the village. Of these, we'll be providing 38 one, two and three bedroom homes available on a shared ownership and affordable rent basis.

With its surroundings of gently rolling landscape of field and copse and thriving High Street, Hartley Wintney is a highly desirable place to live. House prices currently stand at 9.5 times the average annual salary, which means an increase of 28.8% in the last 5 years.

It’s great to be working with Bewley to provide such high quality affordable housing in a village like Hartley Wintney, where housing is at such a premium. Being able to offer a home ownership option to those who wouldn’t otherwise be able to buy in the area is important. As a leading Association in Hampshire, we're tackling the shortage of affordable housing with our ambitious plans to provide an average of 600 new homes every year.

Local people have been applying for the affordable rented properties through the Hart District Council choice based lettings scheme. And others looking to get onto the housing ladder can apply for the shared ownership homes being sold to people with local connections, or those who live in the region. 

Local Councillor Stephen Gorys, Cabinet Member for Housing at Hart District Council has said: "Hartley Row Park is another great example of partnership working in Hart delivering affordable homes for local people. In a high cost housing market area, it is important that we are contributing positively to residents' ability to secure homes they can afford. This new development is highly attractive and in a great location. Hart remains committed to affordable housing in the local area and we will continue to work with developers and housing associations to deliver new homes. I'd like to wish everyone who secures a property on this development every happiness in their new home."

The first of these properties were presented last month, and all of them completed the day after becoming available!  Tina & Roger Brunet were one of the first to buy one of these shared ownership property, and they said:
“Having lived in private rented accommodation for a number of years we were very keen to get back into the property market. We were therefore very interested to find the development at Hartley Row included a shared ownership scheme. The application process was fairly straight forward and once our application had been accepted we were guided through the process by the Sentinel team. This even included helping us to appoint a mortgage broker and solicitor who specialise in shared ownership.

We are genuinely delighted to be in our new home, something that seemed impossible at the beginning of this year.“

Julie Porter, Assistant Director - Development Delivery at Sentinel 

For more information about the development please visit www.bewley.co.uk/developments/hartley-row-park-hartley-wintney/overview/