Developer’s site purchases provide space for more than 1,200 homes
Six new sites secured by Redrow Yorkshire will provide more than 1,200 new homes across the region, including 30% affordable.
News of these latest acquisitions comes shortly after Redrow announced that legal completions for the last financial year were up 39%, along with a record order book for the business at the start of the new financial year.
The company’s Wakefield-based operation has now legally completed on two sites in Harrogate – for 146 properties at Kingsley Road and 95 homes off Claro Road – and a site for 114 new homes off Whitehall Road, New Farnley, Leeds.
Contracts are exchanged on three further parcels of land – for 270 homes at Bradley Villa Farm, Huddersfield; 289 properties in West Ardsley, and 303 homes at Moor Lane South in Ravenfield, near Rotherham.
John Handley, Redrow Yorkshire managing director, said: “These sites will be developed over a number of years, we’ve already put a spade in the ground on two of them and we’ll be taking completions in 2022.
“We are also in detailed negotiations for several more sites, which will deliver a further 1,160 homes, plus circa 500 properties earmarked for a new garden village north east of York.
“Successfully co-ordinating such a large influx of land acquisitions and the associated planning matters surrounding them has been a major achievement for our team, under the stewardship of land and planning director Sarah Carr.
“Our next priority is to ensure their successful transition to construction and sales.”
The six confirmed site acquisitions are spread across Redrow’s established West and North Yorkshire areas of operation, but also include the company’s first foray for some time into South Yorkshire.
The company’s reserved matters planning application for 303 properties on 35.5 acres at Ravenfield proposes 227 private-sale three, four and five-bedroom homes, plus 76 affordable homes.
Handley added: “We’re extremely pleased to be expanding our geographical boundaries and look forward to bringing our Arts & Crafts inspired Heritage Collection to South Yorkshire when we start the site in spring 2022.
“We are keen to make further acquisitions right across the region, including the southern area of our patch.”
