It was designed by Roy Chadwick, who designed it in order to meet the requirements of the specification 17/25 for a naval fighter (which required an all-metal stressed skin construction with interchangeable wheels and floaters and had to be powered by the Armstrong Withworth Lynx engine) that only had two candidates, this airplane and the Vickers Vireo.
It was an all-metal fighter that was powered by a 230hp Armstrong Siddeley Lynx engine with interchangeable wheels and floats. Even if it hadn't folding wings, it was designed to be easily dismantled so it could be storaged on board a ship.
Two prototypes were built, the first one as a regular wheeled airplane in December 1927, and the second one as a floatplane in April 1928. The Fleet Air Arm evaluated both airplanes at Martlesham Heath but found their performance to be unimpressive due to the low-powered engine so it wasn't ordered into mass production.
The second prototype, however, was used a seaplane trainer for the Schneider Trophy pilots serving with the RAF's High Speed Flight.
Sources:
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avro_Avocet
2. Salamander Books - The Complete Book of FIghters
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