Work proceeds apace at site for 156 affordable homes
A view from a hillside across the valley of the Keighley Road site (opposite the Aldi supermarket) where 156 affordable homes are being built by Lindum York on behalf of Yorkshire Housing, a not-for-profit association, which manages more than 18,000 affordable and social-rent homes across 20 local authorities. The 5.8-hectare brownfield site was previously occupied by textile firms and a wood yard. (Silsden's first powered weaving mill opened here in 1838.) The development, which will take just over two years to complete, comprises 36 homes for affordable rents, 44 rent-to-buy properties and 76 houses for shared-ownership. The homes will be built of stone and there will be a public open space to the south of the site, which lies between Keighley Road and Sykes Lane, from where the above photo was taken. 
Meanwhile, work continues (in the foreground of the above photograph) on Barratt Homes' Saxon Dene development in Belton Road, where 230 houses are being built, many of them already completed and occupied. The photograph, also taken from a hillside across the valley, shows on the right in front of the Hawber Cote fields Silsden's new primary school, which originally was due to be ready for the new term.
Above: at the other end of town Skipton Properties is developing fields bounded by Nab View, Townhead Farm, Rotary Works (formerly occupied by Airedale Factors) and Bolton Road. Skipton Properties acquired the site after it was the subject of a successful appeal to allow up to 62 homes to be built.
More local fields will be lost if allocations go ahead to meet government housing targets. Land between the canal and Woodside Road (pictured above) has been scheduled for 146 new homes. Fields either side of Sykes Lane, including smallholdings by the canal, have been earmarked for 145 houses. Altogether eight Silsden sites accommodating 580 new homes have been designated (see my blog posts of February 24th, 2021), in addition to the Barratt and Skipton Properties developments.
Meanwhile, work continues (in the foreground of the above photograph) on Barratt Homes' Saxon Dene development in Belton Road, where 230 houses are being built, many of them already completed and occupied. The photograph, also taken from a hillside across the valley, shows on the right in front of the Hawber Cote fields Silsden's new primary school, which originally was due to be ready for the new term.
Above: at the other end of town Skipton Properties is developing fields bounded by Nab View, Townhead Farm, Rotary Works (formerly occupied by Airedale Factors) and Bolton Road. Skipton Properties acquired the site after it was the subject of a successful appeal to allow up to 62 homes to be built.
More local fields will be lost if allocations go ahead to meet government housing targets. Land between the canal and Woodside Road (pictured above) has been scheduled for 146 new homes. Fields either side of Sykes Lane, including smallholdings by the canal, have been earmarked for 145 houses. Altogether eight Silsden sites accommodating 580 new homes have been designated (see my blog posts of February 24th, 2021), in addition to the Barratt and Skipton Properties developments.