{"id":1202,"date":"2016-05-19T15:34:55","date_gmt":"2016-05-19T15:34:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/?p=1202"},"modified":"2016-05-19T15:35:07","modified_gmt":"2016-05-19T15:35:07","slug":"michael-declares-innovative-new-housing-development-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/?p=1202","title":{"rendered":"Michael Declares Innovative New Housing Development Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1203\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1203\" style=\"width: 329px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1203 \" src=\"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/2016_05_13-Michael-Fallon-and-Steve-Nunn-at-The-Vales.jpg\" alt=\"2016_05_13 - Michael Fallon and Steve Nunn at The Vales\" width=\"329\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/2016_05_13-Michael-Fallon-and-Steve-Nunn-at-The-Vales.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/2016_05_13-Michael-Fallon-and-Steve-Nunn-at-The-Vales-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 329px) 85vw, 329px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1203\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael in front of The Vales with Steve Nunn, Executive Director, New Business &amp; Development, at Moat Homes.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>On Friday, \u00a0Michael opened The Vales, a new affordable housing development near Bat &amp; Ball Station in Sevenoaks.<\/p>\n<p>The development is owned by Moat Homes, which has worked in collaboration with SDC to build 11 new properties.\u00a0 The properties are a mixture of shared ownership and affordable rent homes.<\/p>\n<p>Michael spoke to the assembled guests, which included representatives from SDC and Moat and several of the new residents.\u00a0 He congratulated Moat on the development, which is built on the site of the former ambulance station, before joining guests for a tour of the new properties.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1204\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1204\" style=\"width: 271px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1204\" src=\"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/2016_05_13-Moat-at-The-Vales-Sevenoaks.jpg\" alt=\"2016_05_13 - Moat at The Vales, Sevenoaks\" width=\"271\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/2016_05_13-Moat-at-The-Vales-Sevenoaks.jpg 3999w, https:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/2016_05_13-Moat-at-The-Vales-Sevenoaks-300x166.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/2016_05_13-Moat-at-The-Vales-Sevenoaks-768x426.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/2016_05_13-Moat-at-The-Vales-Sevenoaks-1024x567.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/2016_05_13-Moat-at-The-Vales-Sevenoaks-1200x665.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 271px) 85vw, 271px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1204\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Vales<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Michael said: &#8220;I was delighted to open The Vales.\u00a0 We need more housing in Sevenoaks but we also want to protect our environment and the Green Belt.\u00a0 This innovative scheme is an example of how collaboration between councils and developers is reinforcing the bottom rung of the housing ladder, helping young families to work towards owning their own home.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; On Friday, \u00a0Michael opened The Vales, a new affordable housing development near Bat &amp; Ball Station in Sevenoaks. The development is owned by Moat Homes, which has worked in collaboration with SDC to build 11 new properties.\u00a0 The properties are a mixture of shared ownership and affordable rent homes. Michael spoke to the assembled &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/?p=1202\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Michael Declares Innovative New Housing Development Open&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[130,441,478,11,435],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1202"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1202"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1208,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1202\/revisions\/1208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}