Darling Associates has been picked to deliver a £365m nationwide pipeline of new homes and a hotel for the Eutopia Homes brand, set up by the co-founder of build-to-rent developer Essential Living.

The practice said that it was currently working on a 500-home in scheme in the Ordsall area of Salford, on a 2.8ha site next to the River Irwell.

Already in the planning system are proposals for a 480-home development and a 167-bed hotel in Birmingham’s Digbeth area, and a scheme in Exeter that will deliver 400 new homes and a 65-bed retirement community on a former Network Rail site.

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