Work underway on new homes development in

Oakham

BELLWAY Eastern Counties has started construction work on a new housing development in Oakham.

The company is building

62 new homes at Barleywoods, on land off Braunston Road. Groundworks are progressing well and a sales office opened at the development on Saturday 8 July.

Barleywoods will create children’s play areas and other public open spacess on the 8.3-acre parcel of land to the south-west of the town.

Rhiannon Jones, Head of Sales at Bellway Eastern Counties, said: “Our groundworkers have been busy over the past few weeks preparing the site for the construction team. They will soon be taking charge of the first plots at Barleywoods so people will soon start to see the homes taking shape.”

Bellway will build 43 private and 19 affordable homes.

Barleywoods will be Bellway’s third development in the area in recent years after the company built 200 new homes at The Maltings in Barleythorpe, and 61 properties at Huntsman Drive, on the former Parks School site next to Catmose College.

Played football last night on a pitch surfaced with rubble and broken bricks.

We won 3-1 on aggregate.