Ilke units to regenerate derelict site in Arnold

Modular housing manufacturer Ilke Homes has been selected by Nottinghamshire County Council to redevelop a brownfield site in the market town of Arnold.A nine-acre site in Rolleston Drive, Arnold, is being redeveloped. An old depot, empty since 2011, was destroyed by fire in 2017. Ilke is preparing a planning application for up to 140 of its prefab houses on the site.The homes will be manufactured at Ilke Homes factory in Knaresborough, North Yorkshire.Nottinghamshire County Council has secured an £11m grant from Homes England to prepare eight redundant sites that it owns for housing development. This site is the first of these.The scheme is Ilke’s third in Nottinghamshire. In July, it signed a deal with Network Rail to set up 40 homes in Beeston. In February, it delivered nine homes in Newark for developer Positive Homes.