York and North Yorkshire Brownfield Housing Fund

Aerial top view of suburban houses in York, United Kingdom

Announced in January 2023, our current £16.7m Brownfield Housing Fund (BHF) programme is set to deliver over 1,100 new homes on 17 sites across York and North Yorkshire.

In November 2025 we were allocated a further £7.3million, from the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG). This will be allocated to a third round of projects delivering 100 per cent affordable homes schemes across York and North Yorkshire.

Key priorities

Our key priorities are to –

· Unlock brownfield land

· Help address acute housing affordability pressures by increasing the supply of affordable homes

· Increase and accelerate the supply of new social rented homes

· Increase the supply of specialist and supported housing

· Provide young people with the option to buy an affordable home

· Deliver of high-quality homes and great place making

· Deliver of sustainable, low carbon homes

· Contribute to YNYCA’s economic growth priorities

Projects allocated funding

392 homes on former gas works at Heworth, York
10 homes, Sturdee Grove, York
18 homes, Main Street, Ingleby Arncliffe
3 homes at Raskelf near Easingwold
144 homes, former Arc Factory, off Catterick Road, Colburn, Catterick Garrison
6 homes in Cavendish House, Harrogate
5 homes at Hawthorn Terrace South, York
225 homes across five City of York Council sites in York
20 homes at Lowfield Green, York
19 homes, Main Street, Linton-On-Ouse
88 homes, Blind Lane, Aiskew
16 homes Neville House, Gargrave
204 homes at Cocoa Gardens, York
Funding for the first round of projects was agreed, subject to further due diligence, at a meeting of the York and North Yorkshire Joint Devolution Committee in December 2023. A further six sites were approved by the Combined Authority at the July and September meetings 2024.