IN Brief:
- The Trescott Road development will deliver 10 affordable homes in Northfield, all for social rent.
- The scheme comprises eight two-bedroom dormer bungalows and two three-bedroom houses on an urban infill site.
- Practical completion is expected in May 2026, with occupation due around June as part of Birmingham’s wider affordable housing pipeline.
Construction is progressing on 10 new affordable homes at Trescott Road, Northfield, with TR Partnership Homes building the scheme for Midland Heart under Birmingham City Council’s land-led delivery model. Every home on the site will be affordable, and every unit will be let at social rent, with occupation expected around June 2026.
The development comprises eight two-bedroom dormer bungalows and two three-bedroom houses, together with external works and supporting infrastructure. Project details published by TR Partnership Homes show a £2.113 million contract value and a 52-week programme, with work having started in September 2025 and practical completion expected in May 2026.
The homes are being delivered on a small urban infill site, a type of scheme that is becoming more important as local authorities and housing associations look to bring smaller parcels of underused land back into productive use. The build is based on traditional masonry construction and is intended to provide energy-efficient homes with lower running costs over the longer term.
Trescott Road also forms part of a wider Birmingham programme that is relying increasingly on partnerships between the council, private developers, and registered providers to accelerate delivery. Birmingham City Council has said construction has begun on four development sites that will provide 383 affordable homes, while a fifth site on Boleyn Road is expected to start shortly, lifting the combined total to 453.
Midland Heart is simultaneously advancing a broader Birmingham pipeline, with 1,200 homes planned by 2028 across 15 brownfield sites in the city. Against that backdrop, the Northfield scheme is modest in scale, but it illustrates how smaller sites can move comparatively quickly from land agreement to construction when ownership, development, and long-term management are aligned from the outset.
If the current programme holds, the homes will hand over in late spring and families will begin moving in soon after. For Birmingham’s affordable housing programme, the project adds another delivered brownfield site to a pipeline that is increasingly dependent on workable development partnerships rather than large, single-site interventions alone.
