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Milton Keynes Partnership has been given the go ahead for Tattenhoe Park, UK's first 鈥榝lexible鈥� homes scheme. It has also received detailed planning consent for work to start on roads and other services to support the new homes.

Tattenhoe Park is the last grid square in the west of the city to be developed and will provide over 1,300 new homes, many of which will be designed for maximum flexibility, making them adaptable to the changing needs of residents.

Milton Keynes Partnership chief operating officer Jane Hamilton, said: 鈥淭attenhoe Park represents another exciting first for Milton Keynes through its flexible homes that will allow people and families to easily adapt their homes to meet their changing needs over time. Its high quality townscape will contain a variety of spaces and neighbourhoods that are well connected and easy to navigate with roads and safe, accessible pedestrian and cycle links in a landscaped setting.鈥�

Around 30% of Tattenhoe Park鈥檚 homes will be affordable. The flexible homes will be built with future extension or adaptation in mind and could include features such as open plan layouts or rooms with partition walls that can be easily removed or re-positioned.

Construction is expected to start on site in January 2007. Phase 1 will involve creating the new internal road system including a new high street that will run from Snelshall West in the south of the site through to Kingsmead in the north and will also form the public transport link. Work will also be done on the footways, redways and on an eco friendly drainage system that manages excess surface water with minimal impact on people and the environment.

The infrastructure works will be completed in stages so that the school site can be handed over to Milton Keynes Council in summer 2007 to enable the school to be open for the autumn 2008 term. A tender for the first phase of housing should be released in spring 2007 and the scheme is expected to be completed in 2012.