Work is set to begin this month to build 120 homes in Knaresborough after Yorkshire Housing purchased the site from Gladman Developments.
The 18-acre site on Boroughbridge Road is allocated for development in Harrogate Borough Council’s Local Plan and planning permission was granted in August last year, despite objections.
Yorkshire Housing, which is a housing association, hopes the two, three, and four-bedroom homes will begin to be ready in January next year.
Andy Gamble, director of development at Yorkshire Housing, said:
“The 120 new homes will be mixed tenure and will provide homes for shared ownership, affordable rent, rent-to-buy and market sale.
“We want to continue creating new communities that bring more, much-needed homes to Yorkshire where our customers are proud to live and call home.”
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Scriven Parish Council said the homes would result in “saturation” for Knaresborough and its facilities when the plans were submitted.
The objection said:
“Knaresborough is under tremendous pressure and the historic market town, which all the residents recognise and enjoy, is being destroyed by over development.”