Avant set to build hundreds of homes on former hospital site
A MAJOR housing scheme will soon be developed on a former hospital site in Yorkshire.
Avant Homes has bought a 20acre parcel of land at the former St Luke’s Hospital site in Huddersfield, where it plans to build 226 homes and create up to 250 sales and construction jobs.
The site has been sold in a joint venture partnership between Henry Boot Developments (HBD) and Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust.
Planning permission was granted for the development by Kirklees Council in April this year.
Located just off Blackmoorfoot Road, the Avant development, called Fitzwilliam Grange, will revive the brownfield site which has been vacant for more than eight years. HBD will develop a remaining two acres at the 22acre site.
Work has already begun on the
£58m development, where Avant will provide 16 different designled house types across a range of two, three and four-bedroom homes.
Eleven properties have been designated as ‘starter’ homes, offering an affordable entry level property for first-time buyers.
Avant Homes Yorkshire managing director, Chris Coley, said: “Fitzwilliam Grange is an exciting development for us, in a town which is undergoing significant regeneration.
“We are pleased to be bringing a brownfield site back into active use, providing the area with highquality homes in this highly sustainable location.
“Offering fantastic views over the town, excellent nearby amenities and a wide range of our very latest house types we’re expecting the development to prove extremely popular.”
The first homes are due for completion in the mid-2020s. Show homes are expected to be unveiled in July 2020.
Andrew Milne, senior development surveyor at HBD, said: “The sale of land to Avant paves the way for the development of hundreds of much-needed new homes and supports the delivery of Kirklees’ ambitious Local Plan.”