Firm co-owned by Ikea and Skanska will work with Hampshire-based Vivid on development pipeline

Part Ikea-owned modular housing developer BoKlok has signed a deal with housing association Vivid to build 1,000 homes over the next five years.

The modular housebuilder, which has established a business in the UK in the last two years, said it will work with the Hampshire-based association to deliver up to 300 homes per year to various sites in Hampshire, Surrey Berkshire and West Sussex.

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The deal will see the two organisations collaborate on land and planning issues, with BoKlok supplying the homes. The agreement is part of a plan by Vivid to build 17,000 homes in the next 10 years.

Swedish firm , has built more than 12,000 homes in Scandinavia over the last 20 years, and has since setting up in the UK in 2019.

Earlier this year it announced a (homes pictured, right) to construct two-and three-storey timber frame houses for the firm. The firm plans to see its first homes in a 200-home site in Bristol next year.

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