THE final phase of the Brackenhall regeneration scheme has started.
Homes in five areas of the once-troubled estate will now be demolished to make way for 227 new houses.
Plans have been submitted to Kirklees Council by Halifax-based Circa Homes for the work, which will be the fourth and final phase of the Deighton Brackenhall Initiative.
Over the last five years hundreds of council tenants have moved out of their houses to make way for the new Ferndale development of private and housing association homes.
The new building work has ended the reputation of the area, which was once notorious for drugs and crime.
Peter Beck, the project's principal regeneration manager, said the scheme had transformed the area.
He added: "It's been a very long process, but we are very proud of the achievements we have made and the huge changes which have been made to the area."
Mr Beck said a significant percentage of people from Huddersfield and from the former estate had bought houses on the new development.
And he said it was good to see former council house tenants working together with people who owned their own homes to iron out any minor problems in the area.
Mr Beck said that towards the end of the 1990s the Deighton and Brackenhall areas were suffering many social and economic problems.
There were too many empty two-bedroom council houses and it was a place where people chose not to live and wanted to leave.
But he said people were now moving into the area and new developers were also coming in to regenerate it further.
The new plans will see the demolition of houses in Bracken Square, Oxley Road and Holt Avenue.
Many of the houses have been boarded up for years.
