AQW 26200/11-15

Mr Stewart Dickson
Alliance Party
East Antrim

Tabled Date: 24/09/2013
Answered On Date: 04/10/2013
Priority Written: No

Question:
To ask the Minister for Social Development what progress has been made to secure funding commitments and obtain planning permission for new accommodation and services on the site of Greenisland House.

Answer:

A scheme at this location to provide accommodation for 32 frail elderly people is included in my Department’s Social Housing Development Programme for 2013/14. The scheme is being taken forward by Trinity Housing Association.

Provisional funding has been set aside for 2013/14 and will be confirmed on receipt of an approvable application from Trinity. Trinity expects to make that application in November. At that point, the scheme detail will be assessed and provided all is in order, funding will be confirmed.

Trinity made its planning application on 29 August 2013 and anticipates planning permission being granted in time to start construction work in February 2014.