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Home Glanyrafon

Location: Beaufort, Ebbw Vale
Start on site: April 2024
Anticipated completion: December 2025
Total homes: 14
Contractor: Kingfisher Developments (Wales) Ltd

14 new homes are being built in the village and community of Beaufort (Cendl) on a site previously occupied by a former sheltered housing complex, which was demolished in 2019.

The development encompasses –

  • 4x 4 Person 2 Bed houses
  • 4x 5 Person 3 Bed houses
  • 2x 3 Person 2 Bed bungalows and
  • 4x 2 Person 1 Bed Walk up flats

The homes are in a courtyard arrangement with an associated access road, car parking, gardens and hard and soft landscaped areas. The houses will meet Lifetime Homes – a design standard for accessible and adaptable housing – and the bungalows and ground floor flats will be wheelchair accessible.

The development of this brownfield site has been carefully designed to respond to the surroundings and create an attractive place to live. The amenity and recreational value of the adjacent green open space has also been protected the for the locality.

A few key materials were chosen to reflect the local style, helping the development stand out with a modern and unique look. The development complements the characteristics of existing neighbouring properties and that of the wider area.

The scheme is sensitive to the existing context, landscape  and local ecology such as the neighbouring Afon Ebwy river, the green open space and connecting footpaths. It includes a sustainable drainage system featuring interconnecting ‘rain gardens’ that will take rainwater from the new properties and permeable paving, linking into a bioretention basin.  The landscaping scheme takes biodiversity enhancements into consideration and will include a high proportion of native plants and species of value to wildlife, together with keeping the surrounding existing trees.

The highly sustainable, low carbon design of the new homes will reduce energy demand through passive design and energy efficiency by means of appropriate building fabric and renewable, low/zero carbon energy generation technologies. The properties will also incorporate efficient resource use during construction, operation and future maintenance.

All of the homes are being built to high energy efficiency standards to achieve EPC A rating and SAP 100 through a fabric first approach and inclusion of Solar PV and energy storage batteries.

Each new home shall be provided with:

  • Photovoltaic roof panels (Solar PV)
  • Storage battery and Inverter
  • Mechanical Ventilation with Heat Recovery (MVHR)
  • Smoke/heat alarms with HomeLINK Environmental Sensors
  • Air Source Heat Pump with underfloor heating
  • Sprinkler system

The construction of this innovative new development is supported by Social Housing Grant funding from Welsh Government.

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