Vulnerable adults are being offered key experience at a new housing development in Kings Langley to help them get into work.

Developer Bellway North London has hired the Sunnyside Rural Trust charity to maintain the outdoor spaces at its 65-home Millworks development off the Home Park Mill Link Road.

The partnership will see around 40 adults with learning difficulties gain “valuable” work experience over the next year by carrying out tasks such as mowing the lawns, strimming and cutting back hedgerows.

Bellway North London Sales Manager Zoe Dobbs (far right) with project worker Tom Roberts (far left) and the Sunnyside Rural Trust volunteers at the Millworks site.Bellway North London Sales Manager Zoe Dobbs (far right) with project worker Tom Roberts (far left) and Sunnyside Rural Trust workers at the Millworks site. (Image: Bellway) Sunnyside Rural Trust's Emma Power said: “This is an excellent opportunity for our trainees to work in the local community where they can develop gardening skills that can lead to potential employment.

Members of the Trust team cut the grass at the development.Members of the Trust team cut the grass at the development. (Image: Bellway)  “We are looking forward to continuing to develop our partnership activities with Bellway in the area.”

A show apartment at Millworks.A show apartment at Millworks. (Image: Bellway) The charity organises work experience for over 170 adults in Hertfordshire to help them develop skills in outdoors activities such as landscaping and garden maintenance.

A worker from the Trust cut long grass with a strimmer.A worker from the Trust cuts long grass with a strimmer. (Image: Bellway)

Developer Bellway hailed a “milestone” moment in March when residents moved into the first 14 completed flats at the Millworks estate.

Once completed, the development will provide 65 new homes in a mixture of one and two-bedroom apartments, which have been listed for between £282,500 and £410,000.