The housebuilder Bellway has acquired land from Homes England to build an additional 170 new sustainable homes at Tattenhoe Park.
Purchase of the 12.66-acre site, off Twain Way, on the south-western edge of Milton Keynes will see 119 homes built for private sale, and 51 affordable homes – all of which will be heated by all-electric air source heat pumps to support the transition towards net zero.
Bellway and Homes England received detailed consent for the development – which will be known as Tattenhoe Meadows – in April. It will form part of the wider Tattenhoe Park neighbourhood, which has outline planning permission for more than 1,300 homes.
This will be Bellway’s second phase at Tattenhoe Park, following the construction of 160 homes on a neighbouring land parcel.
Neil Grainger, Land Director at Bellway Northern Home Counties, said: “Now that we have acquired this land we can forge ahead with our plans, as there is detailed planning permission already in place for these additional 170 new homes.”
The first residents are expected to move in next summer.
“This latest acquisition underlines our continued commitment to the wider scheme, which will bring hundreds of much-needed new homes to Milton Keynes,” Neil said.
At the new Bellway development, existing trees and hedgerow will be retained wherever possible and a new planting programme favouring native trees and shrubs will be introduced. A landscaped area of open space with seating and a network of footpaths and cycleways will also feature.
Biodiversity will be prioritised with the retention of a woodland belt to the west of the site, new planting to include plants for pollinators, and the installation of bat and bird boxes, hedgehog-friendly fencing and habitat wood piles.
