Keepmoat has announced plans to produce 750 homes a year through a new offsite partnership.
The company is teaming up with offsite specialist Elliott to form Ikle Homes with the aim of delivering 750 modular homes a year within three years.
As part of the delivery plan, Elliott is expected to produce up to 250 homes in 2018 through its factory at Carnaby in Yorkshire. Keepmoat is exploring options to open a further factory capable of producing 500 units through its Ikle brand.
The offsite homes are designed as two-to-three storey terraced or semi-detached houses and flats. The modular system can generate up to around 100 permutations. They will be offered to councils and housing associations, as well as for private market sale.
A two-storey, 80 sq m home can be configured as two-bed, four-person home for social or affordable rent or configured as a three-bed, five-person home with master en suite for open market sale and private rent.
According to Keepmoat, up to 10 homes can be installed a day on site, which would save around six months of construction time on a 50-home development.
Keepmoat chief executive, Dave Sheridan, said: “Show us a difficult regeneration site and we will show you how it can be unlocked. Limited access and community resistance can both be overcome more easily with modular homes. We are offering additional homes and not simply a better construction method.”
Elliott chief executive officer, Lee Newman, said: “What Ilke Homes does so well is in combining that basic standardisation with sufficient flexibility to meet landlord and market requirements, as well as the ability to blend in with local architecture across the UK.”
