Work is under way on building affordable homes in Recreation Way in Ipswich - one of a number of "small sites" schemes being developed in partnership between the Borough Council and Orwell Housing Association.
The Recreation Way site will see the development of a former garage block plagued by vandals with seven bungalows, two to wheelchair standard.
This development follows the recent completion of six homes, half for rent, half for shared ownership, in Foxhall Road after the Council sold off a derelict site it had compulsorily purchased under its Empty Homes Strategy.
Other "small sites" include Burke Road (three bungalows), Kildare Avenue (11 houses and bungalows), Fitzwilliam Close (three bungalows) and Ulster Avenue (two bungalows). All are brownfield sites. In addition, 36 affordable homes, half of them houses, will be built on the site of the old Clumpfields sheltered housing scheme. Work is set to start in March.
Councillor Steven Wells, Ipswich Borough Council's Housing portfolio-holder, said: "These small sites are helping us to deliver increasing numbers of affordable homes - more than 350 in the year from April 2007. We are not simply relying on properties being supplied by developers but are selling brownfield sites at a discount to housing associations to help more people in need. Another benefit is that we are solving many anti-social behaviour problems by developing derelict sites."