THE city council’s housing company has submitted plans to redevelop the former Lucy Faithfull House homeless shelter in Oxford to create 36 new flats including new social housing.
The flagship scheme in Speedwell Street will be the first in the city centre to be delivered by the newly-created Oxford City Housing Limited.
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The former shelter was demolished last year.
The scheme will create a single block – up to six storeys featuring 18 one-bedroom flats, 17 two-bedroom flats and one three-bedroom flat. Half of the new homes will be affordable, with 15 one and two-bedroom flats being new social housing let by the council, and three two-bedroom flats being let at ‘affordable’ rents (80 per cent of market rents).
The remaining homes will be private housing.
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The development will be car free, with the exception of two parking spaces for the disabled.
If planning permission is granted, work could start on site in summer 2020 and be completed in early 2022.
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Richard Connolly, managing director of Oxford City Housing Limited, said: “This will be a flagship build for Oxford City Housing Limited, creating 36 new flats – to a high build and environmental standard in a prime site.”
The city council is to open a shelter for rough sleepers in Floyds Row off St Aldate's in January.
A homeless shelter has already opened in Rymers Lane, Cowley.
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