Coronation Place official opening ceremony

Coronation Place is a 20-home, newly completed housing development in Uckfield built on the site of a former retirement living scheme in Southview Drive known as Streatfeild House, which was demolished to provide the new affordable carbon zero ready homes. 18 for social rent and two for purchase on a shared ownership basis – Two homes have been built for wheelchair users and the remainder built to accessible standards.

All of the homes are highly energy efficient with high levels of insulation, and heat pumps have been installed alongside photovoltaic solar panels to generate energy. Each home has achieved an EPC A rating and has an electric vehicle charging point.

 

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The Brownfield Land Release Fund 2 contributed £300,000 towards the costs of the development.  The fund is designed to help councils transform unused, redundant or derelict sites into high quality homes for their communities. It forms part of the government’s plan to level up the country, ensuring local areas can achieve their full potential, and build more of the right homes in the right places.

The One Public Estate programme is a partnership between the Office of Government Property in the Cabinet Office, the Local Government Association and the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG). It provides practical and technical support and funding for public sector partners to deliver ambitious property-led programmes in collaboration. (SPACES stands for the ‘Strategic Property Asset Collaboration in East Sussex’ and represents the One Public Estate partnership covering East Sussex.) The government’s housing and regeneration agency – Homes England through the Affordable Housing Programme – contributed £1.7m towards the development costs. Homes England’s aim is to facilitate affordable, quality homes in well-designed places to improve people’s lives.