A £1m bid has been made for three new housing projects in Kirklees.
And it could mean more than 600 new houses.
Kirklees Council is preparing a case for new housing in the borough and is seeking a £1m loan from West Yorkshire’s Local Growth Fund to develop it.
Eventually the project will see 610 new homes – 300 of them by 2020/21 – built at three locations, with land off Ashbrow Road and the former Stile Common school two of the three sites earmarked.
Kirklees Council is preparing a business case that will see 50 of them built to passivhaus standards – an environmentally-friendly housing scheme.
Kirklees say the plans will create 540 temporary jobs in construction and it will transform 15 hectares of land.
If Kirklees is successful the £1m loan will be repaid from the market value of the development sites.
West Yorkshire Combined Authority’s (WYCA) Investment Committee has agreed the Kirklees scheme can proceed to the next stage of the appraisal system.
WYCA Investment Committee Chair Clr David Green, who is also Bradford Council leader, said: “These projects support the creation of permanent and temporary jobs and the building of new homes which are key elements of the Combined Authority’s ambition to raise the quality of life in our region by delivering good employment opportunities and decent affordable housing.”
The Committee meeting also heard that Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) and BT are in negotiations to provide high-speed Internet access to businesses and homes in areas of Kirklees and Calderdale where it is currently unavailable.
WYCA is a collective of Bradford, Calderdale, Kirklees, Leeds and Wakefield districts and the City of York Council working together on economic and transport projects.
