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MidHarbour ballot
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Phase Two of Mid Harbour estate consists of two blocks (Bow Wave House and Sea Wave House) and a total of 208 flats of various room compositions, all of which will be available next week for formal viewing by the prospective new tenant, following balloting. This exercise follows on from the allocation of the 284 flats that make up Phase One and which were allocated in March this year.
Housing Minister Fabian Vinet said: "Very few people will not already know that the brand new Mid Harbour Estate is a high quality development situated on a prime, seafront site, and one that we are very proud of. As has been explained in the recent past, this is the very first government rental estate to be built since Varyl Begg in the 1970s, thereby making the allocation of these excellent new homes a historic occasion. These are modern, smart, attractive new flats that represent the start of a new era for public housing in Gibraltar, with the Estate as a whole setting a new, raised standard of government rental accommodation. The Mid Harbour Estate has been designed to provide an attractive range of amenities and features, such as planted areas, paths, playgrounds for children and exercise equipment, reflecting Government's view that public rental housing does not need to be of an inferior living environment or quality than private housing.
"These almost 500 new homes will transform the lives of as many families and at the same time have a very significant and positive effect, as it is already having, on the Housing Waiting Lists. The full impact on the waiting lists - which will end up as a fraction of the size they are now - will be felt in the coming months, once all the previous and current flats that many of the new tenants of Mid Habour lived in are returned to the housing stock, refurbished and re-allocated. In other words, the new rental estate will benefit not just its actual tenants, but also indirectly benefit everyone on the Waiting Lists. The reduction of the Waiting Lists is already appreciable but later this year, once the process I have described is complete, the change will be dramatic. I take the opportunity to warmly congratulate the new tenants of the Mid Harbour Estate on their new homes."
02-09-11
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