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Cumbria County Council is helping to provide new affordable homes for local people in Brampton after sealing the sale of a former highways depot in the town.

The county council has sold the Station Road site with full planning permission for 23 residential units and an obligation for the developer to make at least six homes available as affordable housing for rent by local people. The site, which the county council had been asking £900,000 for, covers almost two acres.

Purchaser Story Homes completed the sale on Friday. The county council replaced the old depot on Station Road with a new one on the Townfoot Industrial Estate in 2007.

Deputy Leader Stewart Young, the county council’s Cabinet member responsible for property, said: "It is important that we do our best to help tackle the shortage of affordable housing in Brampton. 

"But at the same time we have a legal duty to get good value for the county's council tax payers when we sell public assets like these and I know we have struck the right balance between the two."

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