STOCKTON COUNCIL chiefs have hailed “another piece in the jigsaw” after funding was signed off by Tees Valley Mayor Ben Houchen for a new housing project on the site of a now demolished five storey block of flats.
Fourteen two-bedroom bungalows for older people and vulnerable residents are being created on the Elm House site, in Bath Lane, Stockton, which was cleared in 2019.
Developer Keepmoat Homes said the speed at which it had received approval to start work on the site was “unprecedented” in the company’s history.
Mr Houchen’s Tees Valley Combined Authority has been given £19.4m from the Government’s Brownfield Housing Fund to pave the way for 1,800 new homes on neglected and disused land over the next five years.