Funding fuels Sky-House Co's Sheffield scheme

A housebuilder has secured funding to transform an ex-industrial base into accommodation.

Sky-House Co has agreed a deal with St Bride’s White Rose Residential Partnership to revamp Sheffield’s former Stokes Tiles Warehouse site into a build-to-rent development.

The firm says it will build 66 two-bedroom duplex homes and one-bedroom apartments on the 0.55-acre site, which forms part of Sheffield’s Devonshire Quarter.

Bosses say the first homes will be built in early 2026, with the project scheduled for completion by early summer of the same year.

The funding deal extends an existing partnership between Sheffield-based Sky-House Co and The St Bride’s White Rose Residential Partnership, which is overseen by St Bride’s managers on behalf of South Yorkshire Pensions Authority.

The latter provided funding in 2021 to help expand Sky-House’s land pipeline, and has helped the company build new homes at sites including Waverley, in Rotherham.

It also helped secure the Devonshire Quarter site.  

David Cross, Sky-House Co founder and director, said: “With Devonshire Quarter being a vacant site for a number of years, the last 12 months have shown we have the technical capability and know-how to bring forward homes on the most challenging of brownfield sites. 

“With a strong pipeline of sites coming forward across the North of England over the next 12 months, we remain committed to growing the number of quality and energy-efficient new homes that we will deliver.”

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