Plans were unveiled this week for the new low cost social housing development in Tenbury Wells this week.
The development planned for a site of Old Wood Road, has been several years in the planning as there has been concern locally that any development would put additional strain on the already problematical stream that is piped under Bog Lane.
The developers have utilised rainwater harvesting that will be used to provide a water supply to flush toilets etc. There is also two levels of SUDS "Sustained Urban Drainage Solutions" to prevent storm water rushing off the hard surfaces and flooding the valley.
The first line of defense is an over large drainage pipe system that stores water under the roadways to the once in thirty year heavy rain event level, the second is large underground storage tanks calculated to be sufficient to store water from a one in (over) one hundred year event. Each storage system then discharges through a flow regulator that releases water slower than had it fallen the un-developed land.
There will be a mixture of housing on site from two bedroomed flats, to bungalows and larger houses. Some will be for rent, other part buy, part rent. Preference will be given to people with a strong Tenbury link.
The challenge now if for more jobs to be created locally so that people who have been dispersed due to the lack of local low cost housing and want to return to Tenbury can find employment as well as housing.
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