Three more developers and four new designs have been selected for the government’s £60,000 home competition.

Following advice from an independent panel of experts, The Countryside Consortium, Westbury Homes and William Verry, have been selected by English Partnerships, the government's national regeneration agency, to build their Design for Manufacture homes on four of the competition sites.

Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott said, "I congratulate the latest winners who are setting a new benchmark for design and quality and look forward to seeing their entries come alive on site next year."

The homes have been designed to suit four of the sites selected for the competition: Oxford Road, Aylesbury, School Road, Hastings, Horns Cross, Dartford and Park Prewett, Basingstoke.

Key features of the winning proposals chosen include:

• William Verry – Oxford Road, Aylesbury: A distinctive S-shape single linear development designed by Make Architects incorporating two and three storey pre-fabricated timber frame homes supplied by WeberHaus of Germany that achieve exceptionally high energy efficiency and flexibility.

• William Verry – School Road, Hastings: A clever solution to this small, sloping triangular site which creates an interesting street and mews development with communal green spaces. William Verry will use homes supplied by WeberHaus of Germany that incorporate garages with living space above, balconies and roof terraces to provide excellent views over the valley and increasing natural surveillance and a sense of safety over this new community.

• The Countryside Consortium – Horns Cross, Dartford: A simple, clear combination of two blocks of flats and a row of houses around a single court. This proposal combines two technologies, the BUMA timber frame system from Poland with the panellised Homes Factory system. They propose very large 88-sq m £60,000 homes with a double-height glazed internal atrium that runs the length of the property to provide maximum light and solar gain. The homes are fully accessible for wheelchair users at ground floor level and have future proof solutions, including space to fit a lift.

• Westbury Homes – Park Prewett, Basingstoke: Westbury Homes propose to further develop its Space4 advanced timber frame panel system to provide a high quality home of the future. Its £60k homes allow for adaptation, evolving from a two-bedroom property to a five-person home, to suit the needs of the owner. The affordable homes will be pepper-potted throughout the development to create a truly mixed community.

These four competition sites will see the creation of around 288 homes. At least 30 per cent of homes on each site will be built to a construction cost of £60,000. The remainder will be a mix of smaller and larger homes constructed with similar cost efficiencies. Overall, the competition across 10 sites will see the construction of more than 1,000 new properties for sale or rent.

The preferred bidders for the remaining two sites, the former Linton Hospital in Maidstone and the Rowan site in Merton, London, are expected to be announced in January 2006. Construction of the first Design for Manufacture homes is expected to start in spring 2006. A publication highlighting the lessons learnt from the competition, together with a public exhibition to showcase the £60,000 home designs are also planned for 2006.

Images and further details of the successful bidders are available at www.designformanufacture.info