More than 200 families from a London borough are set to
move to council homes in east Kent after social housing bosses outbid the local
authority to capture the ex-army properties.
The 208 homes at Howe Barracks in Canterbury – which is now closed –
were returned to their owners, private housing firm Annington Homes, when the
MOD relinquished the lease on them. Canterbury City Council - which has 2,500
people on its housing register - says it submitted a “robust and comprehensive”
bid to secure the homes for local people, but lost out to the London Borough of
Redbridge – 60 miles away in the north east of the capital. Read more on Kent
Online.
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