£9.5m housing project gets underway

A £9.5m project to build 72 new homes in Coventry is now underway.Whitefriars Housing, which is part of WM Housing Group, is building the homes on a piece of land between Gerard Avenue and Queen Margaret’s Road off Charter Avenue in Westwood Heath.The development, called Tudor Grange, will see 51 new homes built for affordable rent and 21 offered at outright sale by Signature New Homes. The properties will be a mix of two, three and four-bedroom homes.This is the second scheme in the city to be developed through a partnership between Whitefriars and Coventry City Council which will see more than 230 homes provided on land owned by the respective partners. The first scheme under the partnership started earlier this year at Stretton Avenue in Willenhall and will provide 14 homes for rent.Tudor Grange has been part funded by a £1.4m grant from Homes England, the government’s housing delivery agency.The houses are being built by one of WM’s framework partners, partnership homes developer Lovell, and are scheduled for completion by December 2019.