Mid Suffolk District Council has received the keys to nine new homes, part of 40 properties on the Abbots Way development by Burgess Home.

The nine rental properties will see one three-bedroom house, three two-bedroom houses and one 2-bedroom bungalows and four one-bedroom flats, allocated to lower income households who have a local connection to the district.

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The properties also support the councils' commitment to combating climate change, with air source heat pumps installed as the primary heating source in the two and three bed houses and electric heating system in the apartments, making them more energy efficient and reducing carbon emissions.

The affordable rent homes were secured through a S106 agreement between the developer and the council. They are just part of Mid Suffolk’s current investment in social and affordable rent housing across the district, with an additional 68 new build social and affordable rent homes in the pipeline for this year.