Work set to resume on Nottingham’s £35m Barton Quarter housing scheme

Nearly 100 new homes are set to be built in Nottingham after housebuilder Cameron Homes announced the completion of a £35 million land deal for a 5-acre brownfield site in the city.

An initial 30 homes were built as part of the first phase of the scheme in 2021, with the second phase now set to deliver a further 93 homes and apartments across the former bus depot site in Chilwell, around four miles from the city centre.

Enabling work is now set to begin in January next year, with the first homes expected to be ready for residents in early 2027. The scheme will be launched to market next year, the developer says.

“Barton Quarter is an exemplary development with some very special design characteristics and qualities,” said John Hickman, Group Land Director for Tara Group and Cameron Homes.

“It’s been well received by locals and set new precedents in the market, which is testament to the legacy approach of Simon Barton and Ben Pentreath’s timeless design style.

“Work has stalled since construction concluded on the first phase, so we are very pleased to acquire the site for phase two. With the strength of our group, we can provide reassurance that enabling works will start in January, to be carried out by Chasetown Civil Engineering – a sister company of Cameron Homes.”

Located off Queens Road West, the site was previously Barton’s bus depot, which had been owned by the Barton family since 1913.

Cameron Homes teamed up with The Prince’s Foundation, Stockbridge Land and Pentreath to masterplan the brownfield site for a total of 221 homes. Work commenced on the first phase of 30 two-, three- and four-bedroom homes in 2021, with residents moving in from 2022 onwards.

The accommodation mix for the development will comprise one- and two-bedroom apartments, two-bedroom mews and coach houses, and two- to five-bedroom villa-style houses. A new access road will also be created from Holly Lane.