The first residents have moved into a new £12.5million housing development in Fradley.

The Kings Meadow development in Fradley
The Kings Meadow development in Fradley

Built by housing provider GreenSquareAccord, Kings Meadow is a mix of 63 two, three and four bedroom properties available for sale or shared ownership.

Mark Patchitt, regeneration director at GreenSquareAccord, said:

“We are delighted that our Kings Meadow development is providing an opportunity for people to get on the property ladder and buy a high-quality home in a desirable location.

“The new homes have been designed and built by our own in-house team, using timber panels manufactured in our low carbon LoCaL Homes facility in Walsall.

“I’m sure the new residents will be very happy living here.”

Mark Patchitt, GreenSquareAccord

The development has been supported by £1.5million funding from Homes England.

Work began in June 2019 and is due to be completed by Autumn 2021.  

Among the first new residents at the Kings Meadow development is Alison Jayne Smith. She said:

“I was renting in Birmingham city centre but wanted to move somewhere quieter and more rural, where I could enjoy walking my dog and have a garden.

“Buying through shared ownership has allowed me to buy a bigger house, at a great price, in an area I love.

“The quality of my new home is great and it’s a really good size – I couldn’t be happier.”

Alison Jayne Smith
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Simon
2 years ago

The example of the person who has bought an affordable home in Fradley speaks volumes. They’ve relocated from Birmingham(!) and bought a house in Fradley under the shared ownership scheme. So it’s all a fallacy, as we’ve seen over and over again. All these houses get built over our countryside so people can move here from places like Birmingham, not for local people!

Simon
2 years ago

So, affordable housing for “local” people? More like people from Birmingham. This is what we’re concreting all over the countryside for, to import people from other areas?

Ed Eaton
2 years ago

The comment by Jayne Smith highlights everything that is wrong about building more houses in our area:
“I was renting in Birmingham city centre but wanted to move somewhere quieter and more rural, where I could enjoy walking my dog and have a garden.”
So a local person has potentially missed out on a house due to someone wanting to move from their urban area to a rural area so they can walk their pet dog. This is why I am against the council constantly pushing the argument for new housing as it is only benefitting those outside the area. And of course, lining the council’s pockets with money from developers…We have to start being honest with ourselves and face the fact that we do not have the infrastructure to cope with an influx of people buying up properties simply because it’s a desirable area. If we have a local housing need this can be resolved by denying those outside the area these kind of properties, which sounds harsh I know, but it is the council themselves that constantly peddle this need and whose services are stretched too far to cater to the needs of Lichfield as it is.

Philip
2 years ago

@Ed Eaton… This situation has been on going for many years. Many rural environments have been overdeveloped. Counties like Cornwall have become the preserve of rich people from London who buy up places for holiday homes. This alters the whole dynamic of village life and destroys communities.
It is self evident to see that the very nature of Lichfield is changing as expansion increases at pace. The OS map of Lichfield for 1921 shows a small town community. It’s present counterpart of 2021 shows massive exponential expansion. By 2121 it is more than likely it will be part of Birminghams suburbs. It would take great will and planning to control this. It is not going to happen !

Johnneo
2 years ago

You’ve seen nothing yet, wait until they start building at curborough. The majority of the houses there are designated for Birmingham’s & the Black Country’s housing allocation but the new occupants will be using Lichfield amenities!

Steve
2 years ago

We need to create, some new Lichfield sayings. Maybe:

A housing estate a day. Keeps the doctor away.