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The location of the proposed new housing on the edge of Northallerton.

Plans for up to 300 homes emerge on edge of Yorkshire market town
New plans to build up to 300 homes on the northern edge of Northallerton have emerged.

An artist's impression of different house types featuring in a proposed housing in Pickering.

Up to 150 homes to be built in Yorkshire market town despite sewage concerns

An artist's impression of the different house types featuring in the proposed housing in Pickering. Image: Persimmon Homes.

North Yorkshire town's rivers face 'inevitable' sewage if 150 new homes approved

Councillors have voted in favour of plans to build up to 104 houses on land off Mayfields Way, South Kirkby.

Flood risk concerns raised as councillors approve 100 homes plan

Persimmon Homes has applied to Wakefield Council to build up to 104 homes on agricultural land off Mayfields Way, South Kirkby. Google image

Plan to build over 100 homes next to town’s cricket club r

How the development at Soaper Lane, Shelf, could look

New 98-home estate gets the go-ahead at Yorkshire village

Persimmon Homes has earmarked a 10.5-hectare site off Highfield Road, in Hemsworth, for 185 houses. Google images

Plans expected for 185 homes across farmland and football pitches

Taylor Wimpey proposals to build 137 homes on agricultural land off Buckthorne Road, Normanton, have been recommended for approval. Google image

Normanton: Councillors asked to approve plans to build more than 450 homes

The tree in Silsden

Plan to cut down 'nationally significant' tree in Yorkshire blocked

The tree which is 'irreplaceable'

Concerns over plans to cut large sections off an 'irreplaceable' tree

More than 650 residents have objected to plans to build 192 homes on agricultural land at Holme Farm, in Carleton, Pontefract.

More than 600 people object to housing plans near observatory

Ben Bowman, West Yorkshire Senior Land Manager, Hesmworth Town FC Commercial Manager Coach Sam Britton, Jason Barker and Hemsworth Town Council councillor Harriet Saxon

Football club scores after £4,000 donation from housebuilder

Representatives of Macmillan, the Persimmon Foundation and York Hospital at the cancer support centre at York Hospital.

York Hospital Cancer Centre welcomes funding boost

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The UK's best and worst-rated house-builders, based on reviews

Site Manager for Windsor Park, Jason Peck

West Yorkshire construction workers recognised in national awards

Councillor Hannah Appleyard and Lisa Jones, Sales Director for Persimmon West Yorkshire were welcomed to the hospice

Wakefield hospice celebrating after receiving funding boost from Persimmon Homes

An image of what the development could look like

Plans for 150 new homes in North Yorkshire submitted by Persimmon Homes

Representatives from Otley RUFC and Persimmon Homes.

Rugby club scores with donation from housebuilder

The show home at Bramptom Vale.

MP opens new show home at Rotherham Housing Development

Stephen Cottrell is the Archbishop of York. PIC: Kelvin Stuttard

Living Wage a positive step in the fight against poverty - Stephen Cottrell

Objectors say a plan to build 201 homes on former agricultural land will destroy the habitat of deer who roam the area. Persimmon Homes has applied to build the properties on Wakefield Council-owned land at Ackton Pasture, Whitwood, near Castleford.

Work begins to build more than 200 homes on former farmland in Yorkshire
Construction work has started to build 201 homes on former farmland in Yorkshire.
Tony Gardner

An impression showing how homes could look on the Permission Homes site on land between Hull Road and University of York's Campus East

More than 150 homes to be built in York - and offered to key workers first

Persimmon Homes will install a Swift brick in every new home.

Local homebuilder signs Homes for Nature commitment to support wildlife

Councillors have been recommended to approve plans to build 298 homes on land off Common Lane, Knottingley.

Plan to build almost 300 homes next former chemical works approved

Wakefield Council looks set to sell off playing fields on Highfield Road, Hemsworth, to allow a developer to build houses.

Sale of junior football pitches agreed to allow new housing estate in Yorkshire

Residents have blasted developers after paying £550,000 to live on 'desolate' newbuild estate which remains unfinished - FIVE years after people moved in. Pictured: Lin Glover

Our dream home is an unfinished building site...after 5 years

Councillors have been recommended to approve plans to build 298 homes on land off Common Lane, Knottingley.

Green light expected for 298 homes near to old chemical plant site

Harrogate Grammar School, one of Yorkshire's top state secondaries, will receive a windfall from Persimmon Homes

Persimmon to pay £1milion towards schools, NHS services and roads in Harrogate

An artist's impression of the Silsden Persimmon site

Hugely controversial plan to build almost 150 homes given green light

Leeds & Liverpool Canal at Silsden

Silsden: Controversial plans for 140 homes approved despite 800 objections

Railway Cottage sits beside the Doncaster to Lincoln line

Developer applies to demolish Victorian railway cottage in Yorkshire

CGI impression of the homes. Credit: Persimmon Homes

Housing development plans approved despite more than 150 oppositions
A housing development was approved in Yorkshire despite receiving more than 150 oppositions.
Shannon Mower

Claims deer habitat will be destroyed if major Yorkshire housing scheme is approved

Claims deer habitat will be destroyed if major housing scheme is approved

Members of Kingsley Ward Action Group wearing campaign T-shirts outside Harrogate Civic Centre in a protest against the new Persimmon housing development. (Picture Gerard Binks)

Battle of Kingsley Drive: How residents reacted after 162 more homes approved

Abigail Stevens, 19, is an award-winning joinery apprentice who works on sites for Barratt Developments.

Women who work on Yorkshire home building sites reveal why it's a job they love

Nunthorpe Grange plans

Residents could be left 'marooned' if 69 new homes are built in community

The club now looks set to be saved from the bulldozer, having been faced with having to move if the homes had been built.

Homes plan for sports club set to be pulled as council to 'review' sale of site

An artists impression of the homes Persimmon Homes wants to build in Silsden, West Yorkshire

MP says West Yorkshire town 'can't cope' with new 140-home development

The area highlighted is where the 182 homes would be built between Doncaster Road, Warning Tongue Lane and the M18.

Plans submitted for 182 homes close to Yorkshire Wildlife Park

Selby College principal Phil Sayles said his institution had “not been consulted in any meaningful way”

Plans for 215 homes on edge of ancient woodland delayed

Staynor Wood

215 homes set to be built in Selby despite fears over ancient woodland

How the homes could look

Plan to build 450 homes on Yorkshire farm recommended for approval

The site, off Gatherley Road, Brompton-on-Swale, and nearby land has planning permission for up to 250 homes

Developer warns residents over plan to build 130 homes on farmland in village

Otley town centre

Giant 'Otley East' scheme to build 700 homes and a new relief road submitted

Dani Rowe

Why Persimmon is donating £1m and teaming up with an Olympian

These ground rent terms can make it impossible for people to sell or get a mortgage on their homes, meaning they find themselves trapped, according to the CMA

Ground rent terms can make it impossible for people to sell their home, says CMA

PRESERVATION: Jason Wood of Historic England in Bootham Crescent's Popular Stand, part of which will be retained after the rest of the land becomes a housing development

Plans to preserve Bootham Crescent's history - footballing and otherwise

Much work is already going on in Yorksjire to boost the skills agenda, writes Justine Greening.

Reasons to be hopeful at end of Covid tunnel – Justine Greening

Northallerton town centre (photo: Historic England)

New link road and bridge will end 'decades of congestion' in Northallerton

The Competition and Markets Authority said it has written to Barratt Developments, Countryside Properties, Persimmon Homes and Taylor Wimpey about the practices.

Watchdog threatens to take builders to court over potential mis-selling

Actinghead teacher, Tim Broad, visited his local Persimmon site to ask if hecould borrow safety barriers

Persimmon boss praises colleagues for 'outstanding' pandemic effort

Nicola Bentley, 46, and husband Phil, 48, claim that, despite complaining about the faults ten months ago, only 10 per cent of them have been fixed.

Yorkshire couple discover 'staggering 700 faults' in brand new £280,000 house

Nicola Bentley, 46, and husband Phil, 48, claim that, despite complaining about the faults ten months ago, only 10 per cent of them have been fixed. Photo: SWNS

Leeds couple discover 'staggering 700 faults' with their brand new £280,000 hous...

The horses had been buried upright - their heads were removed skulls were removed centuries ago

Iron Age chariot burial found in East Yorkshire with horses 'leaping out of the ...

Mark Casci: Jeff Fairburn was a good CEO let down by bad advice and poor PR

The Cube is a mixed leisure and office use property

Town Centre acquires The Cube for Â£12m

Town Centre Securities PLC, has announced the acquisition of The Cube in Leeds for Â£12 million from Aviva. Picture: Richard Walker

TCS buys The Cube in Leeds for Â£12m

Chapeltown Co-housing members celebrating last year after reaching a funding milestone.

More than 600 new homes on the way in Leeds after council secures Â£7.3m in gove...

Persimmon Homes has bought an additional 70 acres on Penny Pot Lane

Developer absorbs Killinghall sites for 600 homes

An investigation has been launched by Harrogate Borough Council into whether laws were broken on Penny Pot Lane, but the pace of this has left some residents concerned.

Call for action over Penny Pot Lane hedgerow removal

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