Harworth offloads 40-acre site earmarked for residential scheme

PROPERTY regeneration company Harworth Estates has completed land sales at its North Gawber development in Barnsley to two housebuilders.

Harworth Estates has spent the last 18 months remediating the 40-acre site for redevelopment, following the receipt of outline planning consent for 325 homes in October 2014.  

The land sales follow Avant Homes and Harron Homes both receiving reserved matters planning consent from Barnsley Council for their respective plots.

Avant Homes received consent for a total of 174 dwellings and Harron Homes consent for 141 dwellings.  Both housebuilders are now on-site with development expected to take five years to complete.

Duncan Armstrong-Payne, associate director of Development at Harworth Estates, said: “I’m very pleased that we’ve been able to complete sales to two well-established housebuilders that have a strong track record for delivering high quality products in Yorkshire.  Combined with the success of our Gateway 36 development we are pleased to be leading the way in the regeneration of Barnsley for the benefit of the local community.”

Katie Charlesworth, sales director at Harron Homes, said: “We are pleased to have secured a further land deal with Harworth Estates which will enable us to revitalise this site with exceptional quality homes. Our new development will build upon the success we have already had in the Barnsley area, with properties at our nearby Meadow View development proving to be hugely popular.”
Mark Mitchell, managing director of Avant Homes Yorkshire, said: “This land purchase represents a significant investment for Avant Homes and forms part of the business’s ongoing land investment strategy, allowing us to build high-quality new homes in desirable locations.  Work is underway on the development which has been named Maple Tree Park and we anticipate a great level of demand from buyers.”

Planning consultancy Barton Willmore advised both Avant and Harron in securing planning consent.

These sales mark the latest milestone of Harworth Estates’ developments in Barnsley, closely following the completion of the first three commercial units at the company’s Gateway 36 development in Hoyland.  

Further to this, the company has also recently begun construction of a 75,000 sq ft speculative unit at the same development to take advantage of the lack of available commercial units in the region.  

Retained agents for the Gateway 36 scheme are Knight Frank and Gent Visick.