Oxford: Affordable homes delivered on former hospital site

The new development, named Newman Place, is in the grounds of a former hospital

A housing association has finished building 273 homes on the site of a former psychiatric hospital.

Littlemore Hospital in Oxford closed in 1996 and the Grade II listed building was later converted into flats.

Housing association Peabody has added six new blocks of flats and more than 90 houses to the site, named Newman Place.

Oxford City Council said 111 of the homes had been let at about 40% of the cost of private rents in the city.

The remaining 162 homes are for shared ownership, with priority given to NHS workers.

Councillor Linda Smith, in charge of housing, said: "Our four-year target [is] to deliver 1,600 affordable homes by the end of 2025/26.

"Each new home for social rent makes a life-changing difference in Oxford, one of the UK's most unaffordable places to live."