Westcliff Regeneration – T.G. Sowerby Developments Limited

This was the regeneration of a brownfield site in Scunthorpe with the construction of forty-one affordable rent dwellings across two phases - a mixture of houses and bungalows with two of the bungalows designed and built to meet the needs of wheelchair users, as well as roads, infrastructure and landscaping. T. G. Sowerby Developments won this project through a competitive tender process.

The project saw the demolition of a redundant shopping precinct as well as a former public house, and the construction of forty-one new two and three-bedroom houses, two-bedroom bungalows, and three-bedroom wheelchair-adapted bungalows, along with all the new roads and infrastructure. To improve programme timescales, TGS took responsibility for demolition works. Demolition arisings were mechanically crushed on site and stockpiled for reuse, rather than exported and several thousand tonnes of recycled hardcore, was used on the site under roads, footpaths and paving for the properties.

The development was carried out on a two-hectare site, with two new cul-de-sac's formed. The scheme was low density and the well-designed properties benefitted from larger internal floor areas, spacious rear gardens, and good provisions of off-road parking. The nature of the development meant handover was able to be phased and managed, with groups of handed over to the client as they were completed, allowing families to move into their new homes as soon as they possibly could. In order to enable the handovers, the site team constructed alternative access routes to the properties, until the main access road was completed, ensuring families could move into the properties as they were completed, and without impacting the site team's ability to finish the final dwellings.

The project was a Regional LABC Building Excellence Awards Winner and a National Finalist.