Construction students from Leicester College have visited one of the biggest affordable homes schemes in the city to learn more about timber frame as part of their studies.

Thirteen trainee bricklayers and two lecturers from the college’s Freemens Park campus visited the £15m project on Ross Walk, in the Belgrave area of the city, where 119 new affordable homes are being built by client Westleigh Developments using timber frame construction methods.

The Leicester Mercury featured the visit in this weekend’s property section and obviously loved our photography so much they decided to use the same image not once, not twice but three times in the same supplement!

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Westleigh senior site manager Jason Mann with three of the students from Leicester College who visited the Ross Walk scheme

A £13m development of 80 new affordable family homes in Birstall was recently opened by the Mayor of Charnwood after work by client Westleigh Developments and de Montfort Housing Society, part of the Waterloo Housing Group.

The joint venture between Westleigh’s Partnership Homes division and the housing association, has seen 77 two-, three- and four-bedroom houses and three one-bedroom apartments built on the Hallam Fields development located just off the junction of the A6 and A46, to the north of Leicester.

Dave Toyn from the Unsworth Sugden PR team attended a launch event held on a cold but sunny morning as Councillor Jill Vincent, Mayor of Charnwood, unveiled a stone plaque to commemorate the opening.

Coverage has subsequently been received in the Leicester Mercury and Leicestershire Builder Magazine.

l-r Ian Jones of Westleigh, Margaret Allen (HCA), Ted Carr (de Montfort) and Cllr Jill Vincent, Mayor of Charnwood

A selection of the new affordable homes at Hallam Fields in Birstall

Client Barratt West Midlands was featured on Beacon Radio this week as it annouced it has been shortlisted to provide hundreds of affordable new homes across the Black Country for the Governmnet’s Kickstart program.  Take a listen to find out more…Beacon Radio 04.08.09