Months of delay over building 106 council homes in Top Valley resumed this week with Lovell Partnership starting work on the site for Nottingham City Council.
Lovell Partnership was appointed in April, and have started work on the first phase of about 50 homes, with the aim of having local people on the council’s waiting list move in on a phased basis from late October this year to mid-February 2024.
The original contractor appointed to build the homes – 23 one-bed flats, 63 two-bed houses and 20 three-beds – on the site of the former Eastglade School ceased to trade last September, since when Nottingham City Council has been working to get works restarted.
Works to build the second phase of homes on the site will then begin, so that all 106 properties can be occupied as soon as possible.
Councillor Jay Hayes, Portfolio Holder for Housing at Nottingham City Council, said: “I’m delighted that works are restarting to create these new council homes for local people on the waiting list. They are well-designed and energy efficient – places where people will be proud to live.”
Lovells is also working on the council’s Beckhampton site in Bestwood Park, which is seeing 131 council homes – two and three-bedroom houses, bungalows and flats – being built on land that was formerly a playing field for the former Padstow School off Beckhampton Road.
