- 59
- New-build affordable schemes
- 4,130
- Homes delivered or on site
- £591m
- Disclosed contract value
- 496
- Largest scheme · Points Cross Leeds
Umbrella note · Affordable is the broadest portfolio under one roof, social rent, affordable rent, shared ownership, Rent to Buy and mixed-tenure regeneration, with traditional and MMC-led delivery routes.
Hale Village.
- 388
- Homes
- 2013
- Completed
- 3
- Awards
Hale Village
The technical bar is rising. We rise with it.
Affordable housing is bought by clients with deep specification expertise against a regulatory bar that climbs every year, Awaab’s Law, the Decent Homes Standard, the Building Safety Act. BREE Construction works inside that bar with cost certainty, technical depth, and a track record of delivering social-rent, affordable-rent, shared-ownership and mixed-tenure schemes for housing associations, councils and registered providers across the UK.
Cost certainty against the funded number
Affordable schemes have no margin for slippage. BREE Construction’s cost team holds the brief from day one through to handover with monthly reporting and stage-gated commercial reviews.
Specification compliant with current and emerging regulation
Building Safety Act, Decent Homes, Awaab’s Law, BREEAM, specified into the brief and evidenced through delivery so the RP inherits a fully-documented scheme.
Mixed-tenure delivered without architectural compromise
Social rent and shared ownership share entrances, amenity and massing with market sale. Tenure-blind by design, no second-class spaces, no architectural giveaways.
The 6-pillar method.
How affordable actually moves through the practice, from brief to handover, scheme after scheme.
- Pillar 1 / 6
Every tenure under the affordable umbrella
Social rent, affordable rent, shared ownership, Rent to Buy, key-worker. Tenure-aware specification and management at every stage of the brief, from procurement through to handover.
- Pillar 2 / 6
Cost certainty for value-engineered briefs
Affordable schemes have less margin for error than any sector. BREE Construction’s cost team works the brief from day one, holding the funded number through delivery, no surprises at the late-stage VE meeting.
- Pillar 3 / 6
Specification to today’s regulatory bar
Building Safety Act compliance, Decent Homes Standard, Awaab’s Law on damp and mould, BREEAM and SAP targets, specified at the brief table, evidenced through delivery, handed over to the registered provider with the documentation to operate it.
- Pillar 4 / 6
Modern methods of construction where they earn their place
MMC-led volumetric (Shaldon Road, Bristol, 50 homes for United Communities), factory-built panelised systems where they accelerate programme, and traditional build where it’s the right answer for the site and brief.
- Pillar 5 / 6
Mixed-tenure delivered without architectural compromise
Social rent, affordable rent, shared ownership and market sale in a single development, with tenure-blind massing and shared amenity. Glenvale Park, Walter Tull House, schemes that read as one community, not separate quarters.
- Pillar 6 / 6
Long-term operating handover
Registered providers manage their stock for decades. BREE Construction hands schemes over with the documentation, the as-built record and the maintenance access that lets the RP operate the asset cleanly for forty years.
66 schemes in Affordable.
Wharf Road (Wenlock Basin)
Points Cross Phase 1 (Blocks A and B)
Watling Grange (Skipton Road)
Saxton Lane (Saxton Heights)
Grange Walk
Milestone Road (The Falcons)
Clapham One
Points Cross Block C
Glenvale Park
St Peter's (Greenlands and Silverlands)
Arundel Square
Walter Tull House (Welbourne, Tottenham Hale)
Aviation Lane
Adlington Road
Wisbech Road, March
Johnson's Cleaners (Stanley Road, Bootle)
Barlestone
Black Dog Way
Carr Lane, Prescot
Sampson Green
Newbridge Village
Springfield Oval (Witney)
Tower Mill, Necton (Norfolk)
Wyndham Studios
The Acorns
Castlefields, Esh Winning
Shepherd's Gate, Shipston-on-Stour
Honeypot Lane
Station Road, Bagworth
Cheslyn Hay (Saredon Road)
Leicester New Build
Weavers Close (Stephenson Road)
Saltbrook Place
Bennett’s Road (Keresley)
Wheater's Meadow
Walton on the Naze (Kirby Road)
Crease Drove (Peterborough)
Shaldon Road (Lockleaze)
Seaview Walk, Murton
West Road
Alcorn Green
Coates Avenue (Winterton)
Central Avenue, Northampton
The Moorings
Beaconview Road
Finningley (Woodlark Place)
Sydenham Road
Pelton Fell (Littleburn Way / Chester Burn Close)
Stonebroom (Carlyle Road)
Leeds Meynell, Holbeck
Oldbury Road
Shinehill Lane
St Johns House
Stonehills Close
Annfield Plain
Burnt Oak Broadway
Smallbrook Gardens
Hislop Road
Rodney Crescent
Boston (Lincolnshire), Platform Housing scheme
Becontree Avenue
Camberwell Road (166 to 176a)
Spennymoor Hartwall Phase 2
Ferryhill Dean Road
William Morris Primary School
Cotefield Road
Recent in Affordable.
2025ShortlistInside Housing Development Awards· Best Development £20m+Walter Tull House (Welbourne, Tottenham Hale)
2025ShortlistRIBA East London AwardWalter Tull House (Welbourne, Tottenham Hale)
2024WinnerRIBA London AwardWalter Tull House (Welbourne, Tottenham Hale)
2024WinnerRIBA National AwardWalter Tull House (Welbourne, Tottenham Hale)
2024ShortlistRIBA Neave Brown Award for Affordable Housing· Affordable HousingWalter Tull House (Welbourne, Tottenham Hale)
2022WinnerConsiderate Constructors Scheme· Certificate of Excellence (42/45)Watling Grange (Skipton Road)
2022WinnerPremier Guarantee Quality Recognition AwardShaldon Road (Lockleaze)
2021CommendationKarbon Homes AwardsPelton Fell (Littleburn Way / Chester Burn Close)