Hyde New Homes Annual Review 2011-12 - Hyde Housing ...

CASE STUDY
“We did have a bit of trouble
adjusting to having stairs after
living in a ground floor flat.
Angela, Jason and Gene were renting a two bedroom flat in Milton
Keynes before they moved into their new home at Oakgrove.
‘We had planned to move to a better area near
to a good school, and we always wanted a
garden. Things were a little cramped as I used
the second bedroom in our flat as an office to
prepare my lesson plans. Jason stored a lot of
his gardening tools in the flat as it was more
secure. It was the day when I came home to
find a cement mixer in the hall that made up my
mind that we should move!
‘We looked around on the open market for a
while, got rather depressed and then saw that
houses were being built in Oakgrove through the
Shared Ownership scheme.
‘We applied through Catalyst Housing,
the Housing Association responsible for
administering applications from buyers in
Buckinghamshire and we were given the details
to contact Hyde New Homes. We were eligible
to apply as we were in Housing Association
rented accommodation and if we vacated
we would be taking a family off the Housing
waiting list.
‘We had a financial interview to check that we
could afford to have a life and pay the mortgage!
The ironic thing is that we are only paying about
£200 more a month for our three bedroom
house than we were for our flat.
‘Gene doesn’t really like change but even he said
that he loves living in this house. I think he is
relieved that he has his own space for toys and
is not competing with his Daddy’s shovels.
I work in a local school part time, and the rest
of the time I can go for walks in the countryside
with Gene and we can walk into Milton Keynes
village for our shopping.’
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