NAME OF FEATURE | THE GLEANER | SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2023 8 AS HANOVER celebrates its 300th anniversary, the National Housing Trust (NHT) and private investors have made timely interventions in the provision of housing solutions for its residents. The NHT, through partnership, has committed to providing over 1,000 housing solutions across the parish. Already delivered are some 63 units at the Industry Manor, formerly Industry Cove, consisting of 40 twobedroom town houses along with 23 two-bedroom detached units that were developed and sold since 2021. The trust currently has two ongoing projects in the parish, consisting of 1,235 housing solutions. In the Winchester development, some 1,100 units have been developed, and of that figure, 678 have since been completed. On the private side of the investment in housing, Cascade Group’s Infinite Concrete Limited has developed some 400 units in the Oceanpoint Housing Scheme near the Hanover parish capital of Lucea. Beside those, the parish has also seen investment in hotels, whose owners, as part of their development, are constructing the Princess Hotels, consisting of 2,000 rooms and four hotels on lands in the Green Island area of the parish and providing 600 free housing units for its employees. Christeen Hooper-Johnson, the newly minted head of the Hanover Parish Development Committee, has said there is still great demand for more affordable housing solutions in the parish. She said the NHT and other private developers have built a few houses, but the demand for Hanoverian and those who have chosen to work and live in the parish has far exceeded what has already been built. “It is not enough; there are still so many people who want to have a house of their own,” HooperJohnson told The Gleaner as she looked back at the state of affairs and Hanover at 300. “The development in Point, I believe, all of those are already gone. Those in Winchester, those are all gone,” she said of the housing developments in the parish. – Albert Ferguson Housing development in Hanover GLEANER PHOTOGRAPH New houses dot the hillside beyond the town of Lucea. This is a modern housing scheme which went up a few years ago to take care of Lucea’s growing housing needs. HAHNAONVOEVRER3030T0HTHANANINVIEVRESRASRAYRYFEFAETAUTRUERE| SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2023
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