Affordable housing specialist Lovell is working on a £3.8 million affordable homes scheme in partnership with Home Group, Sheffield City Council and the Homes and Communities Agency (HCA).

The development, at Wickfield Drive on the Scowerdons estate, South East Sheffield, will create 38 new homes for affordable rent, shared ownership and outright sale.

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The scheme is the first phase of a major regeneration programme for the Scowerdons estate involving the creation of 550 new homes.

The Wickfield Drive properties, set to be completed in spring 2011, will achieve Level 3 of the Code for Sustainable Homes, the system for measuring the environmental performance of new housing.

Councillor Penny Baker, Sheffield City Council's Cabinet Member for Housing, Regeneration and Planning, said: "It is encouraging to see a new community taking shape in this area of Sheffield, and working with our partners we have deliberately set high standards in terms of building and environmental sustainability."

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