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News Release from: Chartered Institute of Building [CIOB] | Subject: £60k housing sites
Edited by the Buildingtalk Editorial
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Developers named for 9 of the £60k
housing sites
The tenth site allocated for the Government's £60k housing project using modern methods of construction is now listed as available for development.
Developers now named for nine of the £60k housing sites The tenth site allocated for the Government's £60k housing project using modern methods of construction is now listed as available for development
This article was originally published on Buildingtalk on 12 Mar 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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This is the Rowan site at Mitcham in the London Borough of Merton, just over six hectares in size, with a net developable area of around two hectares.
It is expected to accommodate about 180 houses, of which 25 per cent should be affordable rental housing.
Like most of the sites in the set of ten, former location of Rowan High School, is a brownfield site now owned by English Partnerships.
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The most recent decision in this series was for the new community planned for the former 3.9 hectare Linton hospital site at Coxheath in the Borough of Maidstone.
The preferred developer here is the SIXTYK consortium led by Crest Nicholson plc with Kingspan off-site and architects Sheppard Robson.
Last November SIXTYK were selected as preferred developers for the former hospital site at Renny Lodge in Newport Pagnell.
SIXTYK named for Maidstone hospital site.
The consortium is expected to build approximately 150 units on the Linton site, of which 45 will be built as affordable housing within the £60,000 cost limit.
All of the homes will be built using a modern prefabricated structural insulated panel system supplied by Kingspan, allowing Crest to finish each housing plot within 25 days, half the building time of traditionally built houses.
The technique is similar to that proposed for the Newport Pagnell site.
All of the Linton homes will have a prefabricated skylight roof lantern unit to help manage heat, make maximum use of solar gain and reduce energy consumption.
The EcoHomes rating aimed for is Excellent.
'Selling on at market value'.
Joe Martin, executive director of RICS Building Cost Information Service, who sat on the judging panel for the ODPM competition, commented: "Some of the winning designs are very creative and all have been made to a construction budget of £60,000.
The houses may well come in on budget, but once built the majority will sell on at market value.
These ten sites will provide about 1,000 houses, but many more are needed to have any significant impact on the housing affordability problem faced by many people today." The nine sites for which the preferred developer has been named are as follows:.
* Oxley Park, Milton Keynes (George Wimpey plc).
* Upton, Northampton (Barratt Developments).
* Allerton Bywater Millennium Community (Barratt Developments).
* Renny Lodge, Newport Pagnell (SIXTYK consortium).
* Horns Cross, Dartford (Countryside Consortium).
* Linton Hospital, Maidstone (SIXTYK consortium).
* Park Prewett Hospital, Basingstoke (Westbury Homes).
* School Road, Hastings (William Verry).
* Former TA site, Aylesbury Vale (William Verry).
'MMC set to sky rocket' In its latest Constructing the Future bulletin, BRE predicts that with all market sectors extremely buoyant and year on year growth to 2007 set at 10 per cent, demand for off-site and modern methods of construction seems set to rocket.
Quite apart from housing, Oliver Novakovic, leader of BRE's innovative housing team, says that in the healthcare and education sectors where massive government investment is taking place, the need for minimum disruption and speed of build is crucial.
"Infrastructure is another area of significant growth potential.
The railway system is undergoing development with investment in signalling, communications, trackwork and buildings, providing opportunities for prefabricated structures ranging from steel cabins and self-contained storage units to concrete and steel frame buildings.
"The 2012 Olympics also represent a massive opportunity for MMC.
The Olympic village will have to house approximately 17,000 people in 3,600 homes.
These homes will all be built for long-term use and will be sold after the event.".
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