The 4th and final phase of our Canary Quay development is under way. The first 3 phases are now complete.

Canary Quay will provide a total of 323 new homes on the riverside in Norwich. The scheme is mixed tenure, as follows:

• Phase 1 – 60 social rented flats
• Phase 2 – 89 flats (55 open market, 34 for intermediate rent)
• Phase 3 – 73 flats (social rent)
• Phase 4 – 101 flats (social rent and open market)

Read more about the background to this scheme.

Take a quick flythrough of our new scheme at Great Hockham in Norfolk.

We have been working in partnership with Great Hockham Parish Council and Breckland Council to deliver an inclusive housing development in Great Hockham. The new scheme includes homes for local needs affordable rent, shared ownership and market sale. 

The levels of public subsidy currently available do not cover the costs of developing the affordable rent homes. The market sale properties are included to generate surplus and top up the amount of funding required.    

Design

The scheme has been designed in two parts. A combination of terraced, semi-detached and detached homes at the entrance of the scheme will appear like a natural extension to the village. These homes are focused around an attractively design central space containing the surface water drainage basin. To the west, the design will appear more like a traditional agricultural holding, with a farmhouse and converted farm buildings, to sit sensitively in the wider landscape. 

We undertook a housing needs survey in the area that identified local demand for affordable rent, shared ownership and market sale homes. This was used to decide which properties to develop. The affordable rent and shared ownership homes will be prioritised for people in housing need with a local connection, in accordance with the council’s housing allocation policy. 

The development includes the following mix of dwellings:

Affordable rent 

• 1 x 1-bedroom 2-person house 
• 2 x 2-bedroom 4-person houses 
• 2 x 2-bedroom 4-person bungalows 
• 1 x 3-bedroom 5-person house 
• 1 x 3-bedroom 5-person bungalow 
• 1 x 4-bedroom 6-person house 

Shared ownership 

• 1 x 2-bedroom 4-person house 
• 1 x 3-bedroom 5-person house 

Market sale 

• 1 x2-bedroom 4-person bungalow 
• 5 x 3-bedroom 5-person houses 
• 1 x 3-bedroom 5-person bungalow 
• 1 x 4-bedroom 6-person house 

Construction works started in autumn 2021. The first new homes are due to be available in autumn 2022 (plots 1-8, 17 & 18) and the remainder in spring 2023 (plots 9-16).