Housing – Affordable
Colchester Borough Council, Combined Site
The project to design and build 34 new homes over former garage sites for Colchester Borough Council. The key issues within the project were: – Tight ‘difficult’ sites With adjoining Council tenants and former tenants excellent communication skills was required from our site team. Dealing with brownfield sites, contamination and demolition waste in residential areas.…
Read MoreEastlight Community Homes
This project was the redevelopment of five garage sites to produce 13 new homes for social rent & for two shared equity. There was one site each in Witham, Finchingfield and Halstead, and two in Braintree. The project had two properties with Ground Source Heat Pumps and one Part M Cat 3 bungalow. It was…
Read MoreEast Street, Braintree
This was a design and build project to construct 74 new houses for sale for a social landlord on a brownfield, town centre site. Our technical team reviewed and improved the layout of the scheme. A key challenge was maintaining the access through the site for a neighbouring charity.
Read MoreBernards Uniforms Site
This was a project to design and build 27 new homes for social housing; eight flats and 19 houses. The project started with the demolition of the derelict factory and subsequent ground remediation. Having only one entrance, maintaining safe and efficient logistics was key to the project’s success.
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