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Hazel Forster, Older Persons’<br />
<strong>Housing</strong> Manager, said: As<br />
well as the conversions,<br />
additional investment was<br />
made to ensure the homes<br />
were brought up to today’s<br />
energy efficiency standards in<br />
partnership with Warm<br />
Zone.”<br />
Peggy Clark, 82, who lives in<br />
the scheme said: “I am much<br />
happier here now that I have<br />
a separate bedroom; I have a<br />
lot more space.”<br />
review of older people’s<br />
accommodation.<br />
Jonathan Kitson from<br />
<strong>Gateshead</strong> Council and<br />
Haley Leadbitter from the<br />
housing company welcome<br />
Peggy to her new home.<br />
The scheme’s original<br />
24 bedsits have been<br />
transformed as part of a<br />
McErlane Square has seen<br />
more than £600,000 of<br />
improvements, including new<br />
kitchens and windows, thanks<br />
to The <strong>Gateshead</strong> <strong>Housing</strong><br />
<strong>Company</strong> and <strong>Gateshead</strong><br />
Council.<br />
Work to convert<br />
unpopular bedsits into<br />
more spacious one-bed<br />
flats is now complete in<br />
Pelaw.<br />
Peggy praises new<br />
home in Pelaw scheme
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