The planning application, submitted to Medway Council this week, includes proposals for the construction of three four-storey apartments blocks, comprising 96 one and two-bedroom flats built in TopHat鈥檚 Derbyshire factory.
TopHat, majority owned by US investment bank Goldman Sachs, is putting up 302 homes at the 4.8-acre Kitchener Barracks site, which is being developed across three phases. More than 100 prefabricated houses have already delivered.
TopHat鈥檚 backers say that adding multi-storey apartment blocks to the product offering takes the company into new markets 鈥� 鈥渄elivering alternative residential assets for investors, such as build-to-rent and co-living schemes鈥�. Goldman Sachs has been building its build-to-rent portfolio over the last few years.
Krishan Pattni, chief design officer and founding director at TopHat, said: 鈥淏y diversifying our product range, we are now able to deliver a higher volume of homes to a wider range of partners. Our company continues to grow, and I鈥檓 pleased that the quality of our homes is being recognised by significant partnerships with industry leaders such as BoKlok.鈥�
The application submitted by TopHat in Chatham also includes plans for 19 two and four-bedroom houses as well as 68 apartments within what used to be the Kitchener Barracks, as part of the scheme鈥檚 third phase, including a proposal to repurpose an early 20th-century barracks to deliver and 19 two and four-bedroom houses.
Dating from 1757 and named after Earl Kitchener in 1928, the Kitchen Barracks site was most recently used as accommodation for the Royal School of Military Engineering.
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