Biart Place development

Current progress

Latest - March 2024

Willmott Dixon has now completed enabling works, with site accommodation and hoarding established.

Vegetation has been removed from the site, while piling for the development's four apartment blocks has started and looks set to be completed within four weeks.

Next steps include the piling for the development's houses, completing the installation of storm and foul drainage, and the construction of the new road to the site.

Work on the site's sub-structures looks set to start next month.

The development should be completed in January 2026.

Willmott Dixon delivers a regular newsletter to near neighbours of the site detailing the development's progress.

View the latest newsletter (March 2024)

Construction operations hours are 07:30 to 18:00 Mon-Fri, and 08:30 to 13:00 Saturday. Access to the site for all construction traffic will be directly off Clifton road.

Willmott Dixon Site Office
Biart Place
Clifton Road
Rugby CV21 3RE

If you need to get in touch with the site team, your main point of contact is:

Allun O’Brien
07805 802 151
allun.o’brien@willmottdixon.co.uk

About the development

Properties will be 100 per cent affordable rented low rise housing and apartments retained and managed by Rugby Borough Council. These will consist of 80 one and two-bedroomed flats and maisonettes, and 20 two, three and four-bedroomed houses. They will be a mix of two- and three-storey buildings designed to complement the Victorian-era housing on Clifton Road and surrounding streets. They will be energy efficient and low cost for tenants to heat and maintain.

The project team submitted a planning application for the development in March 2023.

View the planning application

The video below shows a timelapse of the deconstruction of the Biart Place site.

Grant funding

Homes England has awarded a £6.8 million grant from its Affordable Homes Programme 2021-2026, while the Coventry and Warwickshire Local Enterprise Partnership (CWLEP) has awarded £2 million via the Government's Getting Building Fund.

The grant from Homes England means the development can be 100 per cent social housing, while the grant from the Getting Building Fund has covered the site clearance costs.

A report to councillors considered at a meeting on 26 July 2022 explained Rugby was considered a 'high-pressure affordability' area, meaning Homes England had agreed to provide funding towards the development on the basis it was 100 per cent social housing.