The Design for Manufacture competition, which was launched in April 2005, was run by English Partnerships on behalf of the Department for Communities and Local Government. The competition was the Government’s challenge to the house building industry to build high-quality, well-designed homes for £60,000. The figure of £60,000 relates to a target construction cost for building a two bedroom home and does not reflect the development cost or sale price.
The 10 sites included in the Design for Manufacture competition are:
Site 6, Oxley Park, Milton Keynes;
Former TA Centre, Oxford Road, Aylesbury;
Site D2, Upton, Northampton;
Area 2, Allerton Bywater, near Leeds;
Former Renny Lodge Hospital, London Road, Newport Pagnell;
Former Park Prewett Hospital, Kingsclere Road, Basingstoke;
Leybourne Grange, Maidstone;
Rowan Lodge School, Merton, London;
School Road, Hastings; and
Former Greenhithe Territorial Army Centre, Horn's Cross, Dartford.
Build out is mostly being taken forward on a phased basis and construction work is well advanced on most of the sites, with a number of phases completed, homes occupied and communities established. Renny Lodge in Newport Pagnell is the only site where all of the homes and public realm being built through the competition have been completed.