Bellway lays foundations for housing plans

A housebuilder has submitted plans for an 81-home east Durham development.

Bellway Strategic Land wants to create an estate - including eight affordable bungalows and four houses - in Hawthorn, near Seaham.

The scheme, on a 15-acre site off Stockton Road, would include a convenience store, landscaped open space, a play area and a community orchard, with officials saying it would create facilities “that are currently lacking” and provide “the missing link between existing residential areas”. 

They add the development would support 115 construction jobs and 60 posts in the supply chain, with an estimated £975,000 annual boost to the local economy. 

Martyn Earle, Bellway Strategic Land director (North), said: “Hawthorn is a well-connected village, which is well placed to accommodate new homes. 

“This development has been designed to provide facilities that are currently lacking, including affordable bungalows, a shop and new public open space, which would provide the missing link between existing residential areas.

“Sustainability sits at the heart of the plan, with footpaths and cycle paths linking the new homes to the village, and public transport connections to Hartlepool, Sunderland and Durham. 

“New residents would be living in low-carbon homes heated by electric air source heat pumps.”

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