Tresawls Road
Key worker accommodation
Thank you for visiting our page to learn more about proposals to develop new key worker accommodation on Tresawls Road in Truro. This webpage is a place to view plans, learn more about the need for the new development and to keep up to date with progress on the project.
Thank you for taking the time to find out about proposals to develop new key worker accommodation on Tresawls Road in Truro.
The project is being led by specialist health and care developer Prime. Prime is a specialist developer of health and care property, working across the country.
With our expertise in creating spaces that foster collective well-being and a focus on thoughtful, sustainable design, we are well-equipped to deliver key worker accommodation that meets the needs of local people.
We understand the importance of providing affordable, secure, and well-designed homes for key workers, ensuring that they can live close to their workplaces and participate in the communities they serve. Our approach to development focuses on creating contemporary living spaces that blend seamlessly with the urban environment and promote a strong sense of community.
Our development will create 22 new housing units for key workers, across three blocks of new purpose-built residential accommodation. It will offer 89 beds, arranged in 3, 4 and 5-bed apartments. Each unit has a kitchen and living space and bathrooms with contemporary fixtures and fittings.
About Hyve
Hyve by Prime is a not-for-profit, specialist business that has been created to operate and manage key worker accommodation. It provides housing for key workers in the local community, designed to support wellbeing in desirable living environments. Hyve already operate another key worker housing development in Dorchester, Alexandra House in Brewery Square.
Hyve addresses the high demand for desirable housing for key workers, enhancing the recruitment and retention of frontline service workers in the public sector, including the NHS.
Prime build, fit-out and furnish new accommodation to a desirable standard. Hyve then manages the tenants, ensuring they have the best possible living experience close to their place of work.
Why is key worker housing needed?
Across the country providers in the NHS, healthcare and wider public sector are facing a shortage in the recruitment of front line staff. A key tool in attracting new staff is to be able to promise the availability of affordable, quality and secure housing.
The demand for housing in Truro and the surrounding area is high, with lots of current accommodation being used as second or holiday homes, driving up costs and making it harder for key workers to settle locally. To entice new staff to the area, and encourage them to stay for the long term, employers must be able to support employees to find places to live.
These homes need to enhance wellbeing by being connected to the community and be located close to workplaces and the facilities of the town centre.
A new Hyve building would:
- Address high demand for desirable, affordable accommodation for key workers
- Enhance recruitment of frontline staff to attract, retain and support key workers for the public sector
- Provide a sense of place and community for key workers near to their workplace
- Enable key workers to live in a place they can take pride in – a space that feels like home
- Be ready to move into straight away. Apartments come furnished with key items and fitted appliances (including a bed, fridge, dining table and chairs, sofa and wardrobe as standard)
Project update
Development
Consultation
Planning Permission
Financial Close
In Construction
Phase 4
Financial Close
Scroll through the monthly updates on the right to see the progress being made at Tresawls Road.