Affordable homes to be built at eight sites along the coast

AFFORDABLE homes will be built at eight sites along the Yorkshire coast this year to address a critical shortage of cheaper properties.

Scarborough Borough Council announced yesterday that work is due to begin on a series of developments in Scarborough, Whitby and Filey, creating a total of 131 affordable homes.

The council's cabinet member for housing, public health, property maintenance and sustainability, Coun Jonathan Dixon, said: "We have a severe affordable housing shortage across the borough, so the development of these sites will make significant in-roads into addressing this shortage.

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"We are also working hard to bring further developments forward."

The eight new developments are being funded with more than 7m in grants from the Homes and Communities Agency, as well as finance from housing associations. Scarborough Borough Council is also supporting the development by releasing council-owned land for some of the projects.

The biggest development will be overseen by Yorkshire Coast Homes at Sandybed Court in Scarborough. An existing sheltered housing scheme will be demolished and replaced with 31 new flats, five bungalows and 16 family homes.

Elsewhere in the resort, 10 new flats will be created for rent at Oxcliff in Barrowcliff.

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The largest scheme in Whitby is due to see 18 new houses built for rent at Larpool Lane, while three houses and two flats are to be built in Byland Road.

Broadacres Housing Association is planning to build 14 new affordable houses on the former creamery site on White Leys Road in Whitby, while the Leeds and Yorkshire Housing Association is overseeing the re-development of five empty flats in the seaside port.

Middlewood Crescent at Flylingthorpe is earmarked for 10 new family houses which are being built by Home Housing Association.

In Filey, the former Crown Hotel is due to be converted into six flats and the development of 11 new houses on neighbouring land is being overseen by Accent Housing Association.

All of the schemes have been given full or outline planning permission.