DEVELOPERS have unveiled plans to build 65 new homes on a derelict part of a North Yorkshire air base.

Tej Properties Ltd have submitted plans to Selby District Council, which outline a 65-home community at the former RAF Church Fenton airbase, near Tadcaster.

A report submitted to council planners said the scheme would “transform the disused former RAF Church Fenton Airbase into a sustainable, vibrant and distinctive residential community”, and would use existing landscape and infrastructure, such as roads, to support the scheme.

It said: “Having assessed four options to develop the site, the preferred option is to utilise a similar grid structure, thereby providing the opportunity to retain the original site layout.”

The report said the former airbase, which has largely been redundant since 1992, also offered the potential to re-use any of the existing buildings, and the development would protect the mature trees along the street.

If the outline planning application is successful, 65 two-storey homes would be built on the site, which would to some extent match neighbouring properties, and mean a more gradual move between residential properties and the retained buildings at the airbase.

The development would also use the remains of the triangular village green, which dates back to the 1940s, as the point “about which village life would turn, just as it had during Church Fenton’s heyday”.

A decision on the plans is expected by Selby District Council’s planning committee in November.