Topping Out Ceremony Celebrates 19 New Homes in Little Snoring

The construction of 19 new homes in Little Snoring – including 10 affordable homes for local people – has been marked with a traditional topping out ceremony, with Norfolk beer poured over the roof tiles.

Broadland Housing Chair, Jenny Watson, and Chief Executive, Michael Newey, joined Cllr Jill Boyle, Portfolio Holder for Housing and People services at North Norfolk District Council, on the roof of the first of the new homes to be made watertight to perform the traditional ceremony.

Eight of the new homes will be made available to local people at social rent (approximately 60% of market rent), while a further two will be offered on a ‘rent to buy’ scheme. The other nine new homes will be available for open market sale, with proceeds subsidising the construction of the affordable homes.

All of the homes will be built to the highest environmental standards, with solar panels, air source heat pumps and very high levels of insulation.  The site will also include a public open space with a landscaped pond.

We are very pleased to mark this latest milestone in the provision of homes for local people here in Little Snoring.

We are especially happy that the affordable homes will be prioritised for people who have a connection with Little Snoring and its surrounding villages, and that we will be able to offer them at social rent, a lower level of rent which equates to approximately 60% of market rents.

Coupled with the energy-efficiency of these new homes, that means they will be truly affordable.
_{Jenny Watson, Chair of Broadland Housing Association}

We are delighted to be working with Broadland Housing Association on one of their latest developments in Little Snoring.

Families with a local connection to the immediate area will soon be able to enjoy the benefits of well designed, sustainable new homes which use cost effective solar panels and air source heat pump technology to help keep running costs low.
_{Cllr Jill Boyle, Chair of Broadland Housing Association}

The new homes are being built by Suffolk-based builders, Aspen Build, the first project they have undertaken with Broadland Housing.  The new homes will all have an EPC rating of ‘A’, while the site is also contributing a ten per cent ‘Biodiversity Net Gain’.

The new homes will be release in two phases, with the first ones made available in November 2026.