UK housebuilder Avant Homes has announced five developments in North Yorkshire with 726 new homes for a total gross development value of £206 mln (€232.5 mln).

Avant Homes Yorkshire

Avant Homes Yorkshire

Work is already underway on the 80-home Ambretone Park development in Green Hammerton, Harrogate; 154-home Greenwards Point development in Easingwold, York; and 129-home Strawberry Fields development in Carlton, Leeds.

Planning permission has been obtained to build 150 dwellings in Sherburn-in-Elmet for £42 mln (€47 mln).

Planning approval is pending for a £60 mln (€67.7 mln), 213-home building that will be built as part of the Skelton Gate regeneration project in Leeds.

Avant Homes regional chairman, Scott Varley, said: ‘Avant Homes North Yorkshire is an exciting expansion to our business which forms part of our ongoing nationwide strategic growth plan. Launching with three developments underway, and two others receiving planning approval, means we have a great deal of momentum in North Yorkshire allowing us to deliver much-needed, new-build homes for people in the region.’

Yorkshire is the housebuilder’s seventh region complementing its existing operations based in Stirling, Sunderland, Wakefield, Chesterfield, Nottingham and Solihull.