Summer 2022 Levens Community Project update

An extract from the Parish Council ‘Summer 2022’ newsletter:

Progress with the Project continues in a positive way: the ground preparation (or infrastructure) work at Underhill has gone well and is nearly finished, including the diversion of the mains sewer in liaison with United Utilities.

Infrastructure work (which is funded by a grant from The Community Led Housing Fund administered by SLDC) also includes the bringing of services to site including water and electric and the Project looks forward to finalisation of that work over the next few months. The preparation of invitations to contractors to tender for the building construction phase is close to completion and they will be issued as the utility services are installed.

Further work has now been completed at the new Village Hall site and the quarry faces cut-back to the final perimeter. Tenders for the construction of the boundary walls to the designs agreed with the structural engineer have been received and a contractor appointed, though this work is unlikely to start until the Autumn. Much of the funding for the new Village Hall is coming from the sale of plots with planning permission to build dwelling houses and there has been good progress on this. Of the three plots at Cotes, two are now sold and one remains on the market, but with some current interest. Of the three plots at Church Road, two are sold and the third is under offer.