Platform Housing Group has started work on 80 new homes in Dudley, the first time the social landlord has built in the town.
The homes are due for completion in summer 2022 with first handovers in the winter of 2021, and will be made up of 59 for affordable rent, 10 shared ownership, and 11 rent to buy.
The scheme is costing the Midlands-based landlord £12.3m, and has been made possible by grant funding from Homes England, Recycled Capital Grants Fund and Platform Housing Group funds.
Those involved in the new development include the developer and architect Village Partnerships Ltd, employer’s agent GRM Associates, engineer Banners Gate, and Dudley Borough Council.
The site formerly housed Midland Electricity Board MEB – offices and facilities, and has been waiting for redevelopment for eight years.
It will comprise a mixture of one to four bedroom homes and one and two bedroom flats.
The development and the site is part of a larger plan to regenerate the area.
Martin Wright, project manager at Platform Housing Group, said: “These new homes will form a high quality and sustainable affordable housing development that meets the needs of local people and, importantly, help regenerate the area.
“Ensuring people have access to social housing is of vital importance in today’s world. We look forward to completion of the project and welcoming residents into their new homes.”
Councillor Laura Taylor, cabinet member for Housing, Communities and Residents’ Welfare at Dudley Council said: “Housing is such a massive part of our plans to regenerate and improve Dudley.
“We have more than £1billion worth of schemes well under way and it is vital we think about housing to complement these.
“I am delighted to see this important development well underway and potentially bringing more people to our borough.”
Platform Housing Group – which owns 46,000 homes in total – completed 1,448 homes in 2019/20 at an investment of £258m.
Platform Housing Group’s operating area is from Herefordshire in the west to the Lincolnshire coast in the east, and from the Derbyshire Dales in the north to the Cotswolds in the south.
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