HCA chief to visit Corby site
The head of the Homes and Communities Agency (HCA) is to visit Corby today to celebrate the opening of the first show homes at a parkland development in the town.
Sir Bob Kerslake, chief executive of the HCA, will visit the Priors Hall Park development which is one of several schemes in North Northamptonshire to benefit from government funding through the HCA’s Kickstart Housing Delivery programme.
Priors Hall Park, which covers almost 1,000 acres, is twice the size of the Olympic Park site in Stratford. In December, it secured £12.4m of Kickstart funding to deliver 388 new homes, which is the largest single allocation of unlocked properties to any scheme in the country.
Sir Bob will officially open the first show homes to be completed on the site. He said: “With Corby having one of the fastest growing populations in England, our significant investment is helping to support the town’s ambitious growth and regeneration aspirations.
“It will be great to meet some of the first residents at Priors Hall Park and hear first hand from the people now living in the thriving new community that is being created.”
The Kickstart funding scheme will invest a total of £20.8m to housebuilding projects in North Northamptonshire, which will deliver a total of 600 new homes by March 2011.
Priors Hall Park is already home to the £30m Corby Business Academy and has provided the site for the £8.3m Corby Enterprise Centre to be opened in October 2010.
