Building 100 homes for social rent on the former Biart Place site
Latest update - August 2025
The first tenants look set to move into the £22 million Navigation Way in the autumn, with the council's construction partner Willmott Dixon set to hand over the first phase of new homes to the council next month.
The development, on the site of Biart Place, includes 100 new homes - 60 one and two-bedroomed apartments, 20 maisonettes and 20 two, three and four-bedroomed houses.
The council will allocate all homes at Navigation Way to eligible households registered on the council's housing waiting list.
Sustainable design and construction have been put at the heart of development, with homes benefiting from electric vehicle charging points, solar panels and air source heat pumps.
The development has been backed by a £6.8 million grant from Homes England's Affordable Homes Programme 2021-2026, which has allowed the council to allocate all homes for social housing.
Navigation Way also secured a £2 million grant from the Government's Getting Building Fund.
Councillors agreed to name the new road serving the development Navigation Way to celebrate the role the railway and canal networks played in Rugby's industrial growth in the 19th century.
The names of the development's four apartment blocks celebrate Rugby's status as the birthplace of the game.
Clayton House, Davenport House and Sherrard House were all named after former Rugby School pupils who played for England in the first rugby international in 1871, while Lindon House commemorates the work of Rugby leathermaker Richard Lindon, who manufactured the first rugby footballs at his shop in Lawrence Sheriff Street.
The first phase of the development comprises 51 new homes, with the second phase of 49 properties set to be handed over to the council in the new year.
Willmott Dixon delivers a regular newsletter to near neighbours of the site detailing the development's progress.
Construction takes place on site from 7.30am to 6pm, Monday to Friday, and from 8.30am to 1pm on Saturdays.
Contact
Tony Dawson, Willmott Dixon's construction manager, can be contacted by phone on 07949 345867 or by email: Tony.Dawson@willmottdixon.co.uk