A total of 145 homes will be built  on the three- hectare site.There are 11 house-types ranging from two bedroom maisonettes to five bedroom family houses, providing a mixture of affordable housing and larger private dwellings in two- and three-storey houses around a central street.

The houses use Modern Methods of Construction, taking advantage of a range of technologies and processes involving various forms of supply chain specifications, prefabrication and off-site assembly.  Not only does this reduce construction time but it minimises waste and energy used in the transportation of materials to site by eliminating the need for heavy machinery and construction traffic.

Each house has a timber frame, made using wood from sustainable forests. The walls are 'Trespa' panel cladding, comprising 70 per cent softwood from European renewable forest, inert binding agents and dyes which are metal free.  Effective insulation made from recycled paper together with sealed glass panel windows contribute to the air-tight, heat-saving build, while the membrane roofing material and watertight external wall cladding result in increased rain water run-off - which is diverted to large capacity collecting butts. Cladding panel sizes were optimised to reduce waste – leaving only 15 per cent wastage in the manufacture, which is recycled at source and even the delivery was organised to use the most carbon-friendly modes of transport and the quickest routes. This superstructure takes one week to manufacture in the factory before travelling to site as a 'flat-pack'. The external envelope is assembled in just two days (without the need for scaffolding) to form a waterproof shell. The interiors are completed in two weeks.

The first houses were launched for sale in Spring 2007.