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Funds boost to help homeless

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A bid for funds to help provide fit-for-purpose accommodation for homeless people in Chorley has been won by Chorley Council.

The council has secured more than £658,000 from the government’s Homes and Communities Agency (HCA) to provide tailored accommodation and improve facilities for rough sleepers with the aim of helping them off the streets and transforming their lives.

This money, along with an additional £200,000 to be invested by the council, will mean that refurbishment works at Cotswold Supported Housing, which provides accommodation for single, non-priority homeless people, and for homeless families, can be completed.

Councillor Graham Dunn, who oversees housing issues for Chorley Council, said: “We are delighted to have won this funding to help homeless people in Chorley.

“It will enable us to finish off the work we’ve started. We’ve already completed the modernisation of 10 of the flats this last year, now we can turn our attention to the other 15 to bring them up to equally high standards, fit for purpose and secure.

“Not only that, we’ll also be able to provide a facility which will accommodate a wide range of activities and services for both residents and the wider community. This could be used for such things as aerobics classes, health and wellbeing advice sessions, training and education all aimed at helping residents towards independent living.”

Cotswold Supported Housing is a former sheltered housing block which was built in the 1950s and converted into a supported housing scheme for homeless families and single people in the 1990s.

It has 25 beds and is staffed 24 hours a day.

Over the last six years, the council has invested nearly £1m to modernise the building and winning this grant from the HCA will mean the work can be finished off and create modern accommodation for all the residents that matches the high quality of support given there.

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