Most new housing schemes on site gives record start to 2017 for Leeds’ Chartford Homes

Chartford Homes, the Leeds-based regional house builder, has reported a strong start to 2017 with its greatest number of new housing schemes underway since the company launched in 2000.

Work has started on four new niche sites in Leeds, building around 88 new homes for the West Yorkshire housing market which are valued at more than £27m and have created up to 100 new jobs for construction workers.

Chartford Homes specialises in regenerating one-to-four acre niche brownfield sites.

The new developments join Chartford Homes’ ‘Wharfedale’ scheme at Bingley Road, Menston, where the first three detached homes of 12 were released with the scheme’s official launch in December.

The new sites underway are 31 homes at Victoria Road, Headingley; 34 at Low Hall, Horsforth; 14 at Thornhill Road, Wortley; and nine at Elmete Lane, Roundhay.

All the schemes, previously the sites of a mill, a grammar school swimming baths and a care home, will deliver two to five bedroomed detached, and semi-detached homes, which are expected to be completed over the next 18 months.

Neil Clark, Chartford Home director, said: “This is the largest number of schemes and variety of properties we have started at the same time, creating badly-needed homes for the West Yorkshire market and helping the region meet its national quota.

“This has been achieved through vigorous site identification giving us a strong ‘land bank’, a practical approach to planning and being prepared to regenerate often-difficult brownfield sites that would otherwise remain eyesores in local communities.

“Launching so many new homes simultaneously creates a valuable platform for our further growth and we continue to seek one to four acre sites in the Leeds suburbs which will suit our objective of providing quality homes on medium sized sites.”

Chartford Homes has completed over 22 schemes with more than 420 new homes in towns, villages and suburbs including Alwoodley, Bingley, Farsley, Cookridge, Gildersome, Guiseley, Horsforth and Pudsey.

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