CONSTRUCTION work for controversial plans to build 27 retirement flats in Marlborough got underway this week.
On Monday, developers McCarthy and Stone started connecting up a new drainage system in Granham Close, where the Clarke and Rodway garage used to be. The road is closed to all but residents during the works.
In the next few weeks, the company will bring in a contractor to start sinking piles as part of the foundation works and they hope the apartments will be open by July 2018.
The development has angered many people in Marlborough, after McCarthy and Stone went back on an agreement to pay more than £330,000 which would go towards providing affordable housing for younger people.
They successfully applied to have the agreement set aside, after they said the estimated costs for clearing the site had been exceeded.
Despite councillors and residents protesting that there were transport and access issues with the site and that the town really needed affordable housing instead of this, these concerns were overruled.
The development, which was put forward in April 2015, also includes car parking, communal areas and landscaping.
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