Wakefield District Housing

How the plans to build 73 homes on farmland in Wakefield looked. Image: Avant Homes

Developer makes £17m ‘100% affordable housing’ deal with social housing provider
A housebuilding company has announced plans to sell 73 homes set to be built at a site in Wakefield to a social housing provider for £17.4m.

Castleford Picture House was badly damaged in a suspected arson attack in 2017.

Castleford Picture House: Apartments approved at former Art Deco cinema

Castleford's Picture House has been empty and in a neglected state since it was the target of a suspected arson attack in 2017.

New plans to turn fire-damaged cinema building into social housing apartments

A Bridge Homes house under construction at City Fields, Wakefield.

Council’s affordable housing company to close due to ‘challenging’ market

Manor House, in Wakefield city centre

Manor House: Safety concerns over mosque at high-rise flats

The former Kiko\'s nightclub in Pontefract town centre is to be sold off by Wakefield Council to make way for housing.

Kiko’s, Pontefract: ‘Eyesore’ nightclub site to be sold for apartments scheme

Wakefield Council has paid over £2m each of the past three years for providing temporary accommodation

Yorkshire council pays more than £1m a year to house homeless

Wakefield Council has given the go-ahead for Jaglin Court, in Featherstone, to be knocked down.

Jaglin Court: Block of 23 flats set to be flattened after demolition plan

Plans have been approved to build 27 affordable homes on land off Tombridge Crescent, Kinsley.

Plans approved for 27 affordable homes described by objector as “rabbit hutches”

Clarence Park in Wakefield, which is connected to the adjoining Thornes Park.

Children ‘too terrified’ to go into public parks due to anti-social behaviour

Afghan refugees taken in by Wakefield Council are still living in hotels, the council leader has said.

Afghan refugees who arrived in Yorkshire last summer still living in hotels

Tens of thousands of people fled Afghanistan last year after the Taliban took back control of the country.

Afghan refugees still living in hotels while waiting for a home in Wakefield

The man was denied medical priority to move homes by WDH.

Disabled man 'insulted' by suggestion he use bedpan instead of move home

Andy Wallhead, chief executive at WDH.

WDH says chief 'doesn't take full salary' after claims he got huge pay hike

Bruce Clegg, 49, threw himself into the DIY project to cope with the death of son Nathaniel Hemingway-Clegg, 20, from type one diabetes complications

Father ordered to tear down summerhouse he built in memory of his dead son

Caedmon Homes has appointed the Yorkshire property consultancy Preston Baker to market its new housing development at Kirby Hill, near Boroughbridge.

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Some of the coins. Pictures supplied by Wakefield Coroner's Court.

Roman coin treasure hoard found in Wakefield garden

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Jail for ex-Cas rugby player who had vast store of child porn

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