Burcot Lane

Burcot Lane is an £8.6m housing development delivered on behalf of Bromsgrove District Council. The scheme is the first of its kind for the council and included demolition of the original Bromsgrove Council House site, which has made way for 18, two and three-bed houses, 39, one-bed apartments and 4 two-bed maisonettes – a mixture of timber frame and steel frame dwellings.

The houses incorporated a number of renewable measures that resulted in EPC A rated scoring in excess of 100.  Measures included air source heat pumps with underfloor heating to ground floors, MVHR, Waste Water Heat Recovery and PV arrays. Air tightness achieved was below 3.5m³/m².hr, which incorporated an energy efficient thermal fabric and high performance thermal bridge details.

The apartments also incorporated a number of renewable measures that resulted in EPC B rated scores in excess of 85. Measures included air source heat pumps with underfloor heating throughout, MVHR and PV arrays. Air tightness achieved was below 4.0m³/m².hr, and like the houses, incorporated an energy efficient thermal fabric and high performance thermal bridge details.

The properties are a mixture of affordable rent, private rent, shared ownership and market properties.

Funding for the project came from both Bromsgrove District Council, alongside a grant from Homes England under its Local Authority Accelerated Construction Programme, with the project secured under the DPP3 Framework.