COUNCIL-OWNED land in Scarborough could be used to help solve affordable housing problems in the town.
Scarborough Borough Council’s cabinet will next week discuss launching a public consultation on plans to use sites off Scarborough Road in Seamer, Clarence Road in Filey and next to Filey Cemetery for development.
The authority may also work with social landlords to look at potential projects at Gallows Close and Wreyfield Drive in Barrowcliff, as well as at Danes Dyke, to help it meet its target of building 470 new affordable homes in the borough by 2014.
Officers have said there is an annual shortfall of 457 affordable homes in the Scarborough area and an average of 57 applications are made for each social housing opportunity which arises.
The average house price in the area is between five and eight times the average household income and the borough’s levels of social housing are below national levels.
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