FOUR new affordable homes will be built in Skelwith Bridge thanks to a pioneering partnership.
Two Castles Housing Association has worked with Skelwith and Langdale Community Land Trust (SLCLT), a not-for-profit company, to help provide the much-needed housing.
The three three-bedroom homes and one two-bedroom home in the village mark the first time Two Castles has worked in partnership with a community interest company.
Work will begin shortly, with completion scheduled for the end of 2016.
People with an existing connection to the village will be given priority for what are the first affordable housing built in Skelwith Bridge for decades.
The development has been granted £140,000 funding from the Homes and Communities Agency as well as £79,000 from South Lakeland District Council.
Ambleside and Grasmere Councillor Heidi Halliday, housing and strategic development portfolio holder, said: "This is a fantastic example of a Housing Association and a Community Land Trust working in partnership and helping a rural community meet their affordable housing needs."
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