Nottinghamshire County Council has selected ilke Homes to deliver up to 140 modular homes.

The deal will see the redevelopment of a nine-acre site in Rolleston Drive in Arnold. The former depot was derelict for six years before being destroyed by fire in 2017. Innes England advised Nottinghamshire County Council acting as its agent.

The scheme is ilke Homes' third in Nottinghamshire. In July, ilke Homes signed a deal with Network Rail to build 40 homes in Beeston. In February, ilke Homes delivered nine zero-carbon homes in Newark for SME developer, Positive Homes.

The homes will be manufactured at ilke Homes' 250,000 sq ft factory in Knaresborough, North Yorkshire, before being delivered to Rolleston Drive.

This marks the first time that Nottinghamshire County Council has released land for a factory-built housing development. The local authority announced last year it was supporting major infrastructure and capital projects costing over £200 million to help boost prosperity for its residents and the local economy. It has secured an £11m grant from Homes England to prepare eight redundant sites that it owns for housing development to meet the growing demand in the county.

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The homes are more cost-effective to maintain, quicker to construct and have a lower carbon footprint than traditional brick houses. They can be built with less disruption on-site and require less complex groundworks, making them an ideal solution for local authorities who want to quickly regenerate surplus brownfield land, and an essential part of the government’s strategy to ‘build, build, build’ to meet housing need and boost the economy following the Covid-19 lockdown.

Tom Heathcote, executive director of development at ilke Homes, said: "We're delighted to have been selected by Nottingham County Council to unlock this important brownfield site.

"Our housing technology means we can quickly deliver a high-quality scheme that brings this derelict site back into productive use and deliver much needed, sustainable family homes for the local community.

"It is our intention to submit a full planning application for an affordable led scheme of 2,3, and 4-bedroom houses by the end of the month."