New Homes, Safer Homes

Acklam Road is one of the sites included in Phase 1 of the Council’s New Homes Programme and provides 32 new homes, including 20 social rent homes alongside 12 market rent homes and community facilities. Four of the social rent homes are fully accessible wheelchair homes.

The scheme’s high-quality homes include ensuite facilities for all three-bed and the majority of two-bed properties. All homes have winter gardens – an indoor-outdoor living space – as well as air-source heat pumps and thermally efficient doors and windows. This makes them environmentally friendly and cost effective for residents in line with the green commitment in our Council Plan.

Morgan Sindall began construction in summer 2022 . The development was officially opened by Cllr Kim Taylor-Smith, Deputy Leader on Thursday 26 September 2024.

Location

This site is located next to the Swinbrook Estate, and opposite the Al-Manaar Muslim Cultural Heritage Centre, both of whom were involved in developing proposals.

Swinbrook Residents’ Association worked with us to help create a new improved accessible ground floor space which will meet the future needs of the Swinbrook community. The remaining ground floor space is to be taken by Al Manaar to create new facilities for the community. Our housing teams are currently working on allocating the properties to those on our housing register and we hope to see people moving in by autumn 2024.