Sixty Bricks

Sixty Bricks completed its phase one pipeline in December 2022. Across an 18-month period, the company delivered 300 new homes in five locations in the borough, with more than 60% built for social renters. During this period, it helped create nearly 100 local jobs and apprenticeships and more than 1,000 hours was spent on supporting young people into work. With £1.25 million spent on local supply chains to ensure local businesses benefited from these construction projects and almost £300,000 was allocated to local apprenticeship opportunities.

Its first scheme at Centenary House in Highams Park was completed in August 2021 and four more schemes followed. The Brick Works in Essex Close, Whitethroat Court in Sansom Road and its biggest scheme Hylands Road, with 120 council homes all at social rent was completed in November 2022. It’s Jazz Yard development, consisting of 83 homes in South Grove was completed in December 2022.

In March 2024, the council could not financially support the future development pipeline of Sixty Bricks, its housing development company, and placed the company into dormancy.