Morgan Sindall Construction’s Southern Home Counties business has celebrated the delivery of the £11 million council housing development on Victoria Road, Portslade, for Brighton & Hove City Council (BHCC)
Delivered under the New Homes and Neighbourhoods programme, it has seen the delivery of 42 one, two and three-bedroom council homes on the land adjacent to Portslade Town Hall.
Four of the properties within the development are wheelchair accessible and each property benefits from sustainable build elements, including solar panels and ground source heat pumps, in order to reduce carbon emissions and utility bills.
To further the carbon reduction of the project, the team has worked in partnership with offsite construction specialist Sigmat, which has overseen the installation of a lightweight steel frame, instead of reinforced concrete. This decision was in line with findings from Morgan Sindall Construction's carbon assessment tool, CarboniCa, which helped save the project 177 tonnes of carbon.
Externally, the site boasts stunning landscape communal gardens, with raised planters, trees, a small orchard, seating and green ‘living’ walls planted with a variety of flora, to provide a beautiful natural landscape for residents to socialise and relax in.
The completed project at Victoria Road is part of a wider scheme Morgan Sindall is working with Brighton & Hove City Council on to provide a range of affordable housing under the council’s five-year Strategic Construction Partnership, which launched in 2018. It is on track to deliver 800 new accommodation units within the city.