Planning permission granted for second phase development

housing. The first homes should be ready for occupation in September.

Yorkshire managing director, Alastair Hart, said: “We’ve had sustained success at the Waverley regeneration scheme over the past five years by delivering more than 400 homes across three developments.

Avant Homes Yorkshire is set to deliver a further 173 homes in Waverley with a £49m second phase development after being granted planning permission as part of the area’s regeneration scheme.

The site will be the fourth development at Waverley by Avant Homes

The wider scheme is Yorkshire’s largest ever brownfield mixed-use development. Once complete, the 740-acre site will comprise 3,890 homes, shops, restaurants, a primary school, and leisure and community facilities including parks and 310-acres of green open space.

Of the 173 homes, more than 17 per cent have been designated to affordable

“Demand for new build housing in the area remains high and we look forward to continuing to contribute to the regeneration of this brownfield site with our new phase of Sorby Park.”

The Wakefield-based business is part of the Avant Homes Group, one of the leading private developers of residential property in the UK.