Three Yorkshire zones and £18m fund for housebuilding agenda

THREE Yorkshire sites have been designated as Housing Zones in the Government’s latest attempt to encourage housebuilding.

Housing Minister Gavin Barwell also announced an £18m fund to speed up housebuilding on large sites. Councils will bid for a share of the capacity fund to tackle planning issues.

Developers will also be able to apply for funding from the Home Building Fund, which is making £3bn available to housebuilders.

The Government said that the money will help accelerate delivery of up to 800,000 homes and infrastructure.

Six new Housing Zones have been created to support development on brownfield land. It says that this will provide 10,000 homes.

The new areas are the Sheffield Housing Zone, South Yorkshire, the North East Lincolnshire Urban Housing Zone, with sites in Grimsby and Cleethorpes and Hoyland-Wombwell Strategic Housing Zone, Barnsley, South Yorkshire.

Housing Minister, Gavin Barwell said: “We want to turbocharge house building on large sites to get the homes built in the places people want to live, so that this country works for everyone, not just the privileged few.

“These sites offer enormous potential to transform brownfield land into new homes and our £18m funding will help get them built much sooner.”