NEW SANQUAHAR STREET APARTMENTS ON THE HORIZON

In recent weeks there’s been a new feature on the Splott skyline – as our new Sanquahar Street apartments are on the up. Work on this £4 million scheme started last autumn and is now rapidly taking shape. We anticipated the scheme being completed early in 2009. The development continues our thirty-year history of providing new homes in the Splott area.

We own several hundred properties in Splott; so it’s great to be providing new homes again in one of the Association’s traditional communities – our last major scheme in Splott was Moorland Road apartments, which were completed in 2004.

The five-storey development is on the site of the former ‘Railway Club’ and is being developed with the support of Cardiff County Council and the Welsh Assembly Government.

The scheme is made up of:

• 31 one bedroom apartments
• 9 two bedroom apartments

All the apartments will have high-quality fitted kitchens and bathrooms and meet all the Assembly’s required space and amenity standards. This scheme is the first one that’s been developed in an ‘open-book’ partnership arrangement with the developer, Mi-Space. The scheme will be the first of this kind built by the Integrate Consortium supply-chain using collaborative building principles.

CCHA is one of the founder members of Integrate.

SUPERB NEW LOW-COST APARTMENTS FOR SALE AND RENT AVAILABLE IN SPLOTT – NOW!

Pay Just 55% Of The Full Sale Price

45% Loans Available From CCHA with Nothing to Be Repaid Until You Decide To Sell

The full details of our new 20 apartment scheme, for sale and rent, are available at www.myplaceinthebay.co.uk right now! If you would like to own a home of your own, then these apartments could be for you – and you could get onto the property ladder for just 55% of the full sale price. Prices for a 55% share start at £63,500*, for a 1 bed apartment and £71,500* for a 2 bed.

These properties are bound to popular and there’s only ten available. These properties are perfectly suited to single people or couples who want the convenience of apartment life, with the great amenities of the city centre and transport links on their doorstep.

The properties are perfectly suited to single people or couples who want the convenience of apartment life, with the great amenities of the city centre and transport links on their doorstep. 

So, if you’re working and earning a modest income and can’t get onto the property ladder then these apartments could be for you. They are available to first-time buyers as well as people who are starting again following a change in personal circumstances or returning to home ownership after a gap.

Remember you only have to find a mortgage/deposit for the 55% figures noted above – although you can buy up to a 70% share if you would prefer. We then provide you with a loan for the remaining percentage with nothing to be repaid until the property is sold.

For all the details go to www.myplaceinthebay.co.uk or:

To rent: 1 bed apartments only
Tel: 029 2046 8482
residential.management@ccha.org.uk

To buy: 1 and 2 bed apartments
Tel: 029 2053 7366
lcho@cardiff.gov.uk

BUMPER SUMMER CHAT – AVAILABLE NOW

There’s a sixteen-page edition of our tenants’ newsletter available for you to download from the CHAT page of the site right now! If you’re a CCHA tenant your personal copy was sent to you over the weekend.

The newsletter is packed with a whole range of stories:

• All the details of our AGM on 16th July 2008
• The TRC’s study-visit to Leicester
• The launch of the 2008 tenants’ survey
• A full report on progress with WHQS
• Details of summer days-out for tenants
• Our annual gardening competition
• Obituaries to Pattie Wheeler and Reg Hayes

Also included with CHAT is advice on avoiding debt or how to find help if you have problems with debt. With the effects of the credit-crunch being felt in our supermarkets, petrol stations and pockets, we hope the advice proves of assistance.

RIVERSIDE COMMUNITY MARKET

Riverside Community Market Association (RCMA) has recently received three year funding from the Tudor Trust to employ a full-time equivalent Community Food Coordinator to deliver a range of food and health linked outreach and education activities in the local community.

Meanwhile, RCMA's Community Garden Project - where local people can learn how to grow their own food in Cardiff – continues to thrive and  recently won a Wales Diversity Award and a Food Standards Agency AFAL Award.

The award winning Riverside Market (runner up in last year’s Radio 4 Food and Farming Awards), is now in its 10th year! - running every Sunday morning from 10am – 2pm on Fitzhamon Embankment, opposite the Millennium Stadium, is also expanding its existing range of more than 30 superb stalls  – recent additions include home-made healthy ready meals (just the thing to keep in the freezer for those busy days) and locally collected mushrooms.

SO...HAVE YOU BEEN TO THE MARKETS LATELY? - IF NOT, DO YOU KNOW WHAT YOU’RE MISSING  – we really do have the tastiest food in Cardiff, and you’re supporting local producers and sustainable farming.

NEXT UPDATE: AUGUST 2008