Bovis is to launch a new housing division, headed up by the group’s chief operating officer Keith Carnegie, to develop homes specifically for UK housing associations.

The company said housing associations were looking for new ways to support their affordable housing delivery and that following the Letwin review and the government’s focus on quicker delivery of larger schemes it would work with such organisations to build much-needed homes.

Bovis’ new Partnership Housing Division would be a land-led strategy “reflecting our valuable and deliverable strategic land bank with a number of sites of significant scale,” the group said in a statement.