A MAJOR new housing scheme with half of the homes for cut-price sale or rent has been unveiled for farmland on the edge of York.

City based CoBalt builders want to put 130 new houses – including 65 affordable homes – on land off Trenchard Avenue and Boroughbridge Road.

The site is part of a house building boom in the northern corner of the city, and sits opposite the former Civil Service Sports Field, where Miller Homes want to build almost 300 new homes, and close to the planned 1,000 homes on the British Sugar site.

Under plans drawn up by Brewster Bye architects, CoBalt want to build 130 new homes including 45 two-bedroom houses, 59 three-bedroom houses, 24 four-bedroom houses and two five-bedroom houses.

There are no prices available for the properties as yet, but among the new homes, just half would be sold on the open market while 30 percent would be let out at social rent levels and could become housing association homes, another ten percent let at “affordable” rents below the market price, and around ten percent sold for a discount price.

The site plans also include a patch of public open space, a children’s play area, and allotments.

The land lies between the outer ring road A1237, Boroughbridge Road, Trenchard Road, and Wheatlands House, and the development needs a new junction to give access from the A59.

Later this week crucial permissions could be given for the start of work on 215 homes on the derelict Clifton grain silos site.

The site has been unused for more than ten years since the grain silos were closed, but despite planning permission for 200 homes being granted in 2013, developers have proved reluctant to start work on the site.

Now a final “reserved matters” application looks set to be approved by a City of York Council planning committee on Thursday.

However, a Government inspector’s ruling in 2013 means that development will include no affordable housing at all.