Good affordable rural housing created in buildings or on land provided by or linked to faith organisations in Cumbria October 2010
Photos provided by Housing Associations and others Compiled by Cumbria Rural Housing Trust
Quotes - (both positive and negative) from recent responses to Cumbria Rural Housing Trust Housing Needs Surveys
QUOTE from Housing Needs Survey respondent Objections: No, but they must be built in the traditional local aesthetic, be sympathetically sited and be sustainable. Mustn't look suburban or mean.
Homes at Braithwaite Mitre Housing Association
QUOTE from Housing Needs Survey respondent Please consider our young families need - They are our future in the Dale or else it will become a Dale of just old people and our wonderful school will become defunct. What an awful thought and tragedy.
The Glebe at Chapel Stile Mitre Housing Association
Satterthwaite C of E School, Rusland being converted in affordable housing Eden Housing Association
QUOTE from Housing Needs Survey respondent Small houses under the control of the parish council to ensure that they are only for local occupancy.
Two houses at Rectory Road, Melmerby Mitre Housing Association built with Eden Housing Association
Lorton - Mitre Housing Association
Lorton Mitre Housing Association
QUOTE from Housing Needs Survey respondent I firmly believe that the village is large enough as it is. When we bought this house, we were told the Council would not allow any new homes to be built.
John Hext House, Coniston Conversion of Reading Room into 3 affordable homes Development in progress in 2009 by Eden Housing Association for Mitre Housing Association
The old Reading Rooms, now John Hext House, Coniston - converted into accommodation for local people Mitre Housing Association working closely with the community
John Hext House, Coniston Completed by Eden Housing Association for Mitre Housing Association
QUOTE from Housing Needs Survey respondent Housing should be for local occupancy only - no more conversions or building for holiday homes
John Hext House, Coniston Completed by Eden Housing Association for Mitre Housing Association
John Hext House, Coniston
QUOTE from Housing Needs Survey respondent Suggestion Local tax for second home owners. The proceeds of which should be used for local housing
Property at Dalston donated to Mitre Housing Association
St John s Church at Windermere converted into accommodation for local people Mitre Housing Association
St John s Church at Windermere converted into accommodation for local people Mitre Housing Association
QUOTE from Housing Needs Survey respondent This house is left to the Lakeland Housing Trust in my will.
Stephenson Croft, Bolton 6 units Mitre Housing Association
Home Group Methodist Church at Ambleside converted into 15 flats and joint ecumenical centre built with the Church of England
QUOTE from Housing Needs Survey respondent I grew up in the village and was able to purchase an affordable home in a local development. However I am aware that I am the only person left living in the village who went to the local Primary School in my year. Everyone I know has left because they could not afford homes here.
Home Group Methodist Church at Ambleside converted into 15 flats
QUOTE from Housing Needs Survey respondent We have been on the Local Authority and local Housing Association waiting lists for the last 15 years!
Home Group Methodist Church at Ambleside converted into 15 flats with sensitive conversion of the interior
Home Group Methodist Church at Ambleside converted into flats
QUOTE from Housing Needs Survey respondent We need small houses for first time buyers, and sheltered accommodation for the elderly.
Impact Housing Methodist Church at Keswick converted into housing
Impact Housing Methodist Church at Keswick converted into housing
QUOTE from Housing Needs Survey respondent What is needed are affordable first time buyers - homes at realistic cost for seasonal/low wage workers
Impact Housing Methodist Church at Keswick converted into housing
Impact Housing Methodist Church at Keswick converted into housing
QUOTE from Housing Needs Survey respondent We desperately need to move, but need to stay in the area. Private rentals are too expensive - we cannot afford to buy a house in this area. Please HELP - 4 in 1 Bedroom is a squash!!
Impact Housing Methodist Church at Keswick converted into housing
Cuthberts Close, Cliburn Mitre Housing Association
Two affordable homes at Dent built by Bradford Diocese
THE LEVEL OF NEED From the 23 Housing Needs Surveys completed by Cumbria Rural Housing Trust in the last 18 months - 279 households were shown to be in need of affordable housing, which was nearly 9% of the responses to the surveys.
Property donated to Mitre Housing Association at Greystoke
The Old School House, Troutbeck Developed by Eden Housing Association for Mitre Housing Association
QUOTE from Housing Needs Survey respondent If future housing needs are not met, it will become harder to employ people in the future.
The Old School House, Troutbeck Developed by Eden Housing Association for Mitre Housing Association
The Old School House, Troutbeck Developed by Eden Housing Association for Mitre Housing Association
QUOTE from Housing Needs Survey respondent Before any new houses are built all services and roads need to be improved. Roads flood badly. Homes need to be affordable.
Howe Bank View, Chapel Stile Mitre Housing Association
Howe Bank View, Chapel Stile Mitre Housing Association
Howe Bank View, Chapel Stile Mitre Housing Association
Mitre Housing Association homes at Low Hesket
Copies of Housing Needs Surveys and our Annual Review are available from Cumbria Rural Housing Trust s website