Barnfield Close
One of the problems in recent years has been the rise in house prices, forcing our young people to move out of the village where they were born in search of a home they could afford.
In the late 1980s Froyle Parish Council took up the challenge of ‘Village Homes for Village People’ and, in 1992, some twelve new low cost houses, both equity share and to rent, were built on land provided by the Froyle Settled Estate at Barnfield Close in Lower Froyle. The aerial photo below (taken in 2002 from a Chinook from 27 Squadron, RAF Odiham) shows the finished houses (slightly to the right of centre)
Aerial view 2002
The construction began in 1991 and was documented by June Fenn whose photographs follow below.
Building begins 1991
The site was in the corner of a field owned by the Froyle Settled Estate and, without their assistance, the housing would not have been built.
There were to be ten houses and two bungalows. all semi-detached.
Construction
Construction
Construction
Construction
The finished houses in the summer of 1992
The finished houses in the summer of 1992
Formal opening
In the summer of 1992 “Barnfield Close”, as the housing project had been named, was formally opened by Mrs Joan Bootle Wilbraham.