Eight win £100m Slough council homes plan

Slough Borough Council has picked six firms to deliver its £100m affordable house building programme over the next four years.Contractors will help deliver the local authority’s ambitious development programme, which has been significantly expanded to meet the area’s growing need for affordable housing.The council’s renewed Housing Strategy aims to deliver at least 650 new homes by 2024.Slough Borough Council’s construction frameworkFeltham ConstructionFrancis ConstructionFrencon ConstructionHelix ConstructMP BuildingNFC HomesStar ContractorsStepnellIts construction framework will be used to award contracts for individual small-scale projects valued at up to £2.5m.Work will include building new homes on old garage sites, refurbishing existing homes, conversions and extensions.Since March the firm has doubled its workforce, won a number of major house building contracts and been appointed to a string of procurement frameworks.