Work starts on affordable homes scheme design

Planning & Design Practice is helping to design a development of affordable homes in a Derbyshire town.

After obtaining planning permission earlier this summer, the firm is working on the design of the 33 properties at Old Coppice Side, in Heanor.

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Siegfried Doering, a senior member of its architectural team, is working with East Midlands Homes to provide detailed designs and specifications for the new homes, which will be available to rent by local people in housing need.

According to Planning & Design Practice, the100% affordable housing scheme will provide much-needed housing in a sustainable location next to Shipley Country Park.

They will be built over the next two years and will help to meet the shortfall in affordable housing in Amber Valley.

The firm said: “We work with developers of all sizes, from small companies working on one property at a time to large housebuilders and commercial organisations where multi-million pound schemes are the norm.”