Listed building converted into seventeen flats

The Cham council is taking steps to ensure affordable housing is available in the municipality by renovating a listed building known as the “Technikum”. It is expected the first of the tenants will be able to move in as soon as February of next year.
 
Of the 17 flats, between six and nine of them will be reserved for needy or one-parent families or old people who will be able to benefit from subsidised rent. Furthermore, as Basil Stocker, the head of the planning in Cham, mentioned, those hoping to live there must be able to prove they have lived in the municipality, or been involved in it heavily, for at least ten years.
 
In order to ensure tenants will be able to take up residence as planned early next year, work has been going on at quite a pace, with new balconies built, too.
 
What has been particularly encouraging is that renovation costs have been kept within budget. The building was actually designed by Wilhelm Hauser in the Twenties on behalf of the then Nestlé and Anglo-Swiss company, which had this building erected “in English terrace style” for its technicians, hence its name, and other employees.
 
It was as the result of a referendum held in 2013 that it was felt the listed building should not only be renovated but used for accommodation, too.