The Guinness Partnership was forced to tear down the half-built 131-home Meadow Grange development after inspections concluded the modular homes could not be salvaged. Construction had stalled when Ilke Homes went into administration in June 2023.

Lovell will now deliver a completely new scheme, with work starting on 7 August and completion scheduled for November 2028.

Ilke began building the affordable housing development in November 2022 using its factory-built timber system, but the project ground to a halt less than a year later.

Subsequent investigations found the unfinished homes failed to meet regulatory and fire safety standards, leaving Guinness with no alternative but to demolish the estate and start again.

Thirty-two partially completed homes were stripped back to slab level before the site could be cleared.

The abandoned development became a symbol of the modular firm’s collapse, with weather-damaged structures and broken scaffolding blighting the site for more than a year while Guinness sought a replacement contractor.

The new-build contract covers the design and construction of 221 affordable homes, together with associated infrastructure, external works and defects rectification.

Lovell starts work on the Fossetts Way site next month.