Type/size: Apartments and office space
Location: Redditch, Worcestershire
Status: Planning Approved
Contract Value: TBC
Construction Type: MMC- OSM Timber panelised system (Eco 100 & 200 by Local Homes)
Client: Accord Housing Association (In-house scheme)
Scheme Overview:
The scheme is in a prominent location next to Redditch train station, consisting of two small apartment buildings centred around a landscaped parking court. The blocks houses 19 apartments for affordable rent and office space for Redditch Cooperative Homes.
It is part of a larger development of 94 homes and office space for Redditch Co-operative Homes (Accord), near Redditch town centre; to be built by Accord using timber panels from LoCal Homes.
The first building is designed to respect the areas past industrial heritage in red brick and large workshop style windows; in juxtaposition the second building in a contemporary style to be a test building for low plastic construction.
The experimental low plastic apartment block of 12 one bed flats is partially EU funded, allowing Accord to research the reduction and removal of plastic in a real world large scale project; paving the way for a future of plastic free construction.