Two Nottinghamshire housing developments are to be unlocked thanks to new funding from the East Midlands Mayor.
Mayor Claire Ward has signed off on more than £1.5 million to unlock the developments through her Brownfield Housing Fund (BHF).
Harworth Estates Ltd had applied for the funding to help build Thoresby Vale in Edwinstowe and Simpson Park in Bassetlaw, in the north of the county.
The Edwinstowe site will receive the majority of the funding, with £1,165,000 being provided to enable 60 homes to be built.
Of these, 40 properties will be affordable homes, owned by councils or housing associations and provided to people who cannot afford homes on the open market, while 20 will be available for private sale.
Thoresby Vale, which is being built on the site of the former Thoresby Colliery, is a new estate and village of nearly 1,000 homes, including a school, green space, infrastructure and a village centre.
The number of homes and the amount of funding applied for by the Harworth Group have been reduced from £1.8 million for 70 homes when interest was first declared, to £1.6 million for 64 homes, and now to £1.2 million.
Planning permission for the estate has been granted in stages due to its size, with 800 homes originally approved and a further 190 approved by Newark and Sherwood District Council at the end of 2025.
The developers said that, without the BHF funding, construction of the 60 homes included in the application would not be able to proceed.
Simpson Park, meanwhile, is also a development of around 1,000 new homes on the outskirts of Harworth and Bircotes.
The site is also a former colliery, which was demolished in 2013.
The developer requested £391,715 for this site to help support just 14 of the 1,000 properties, and the East Midlands Combined County Authority (EMCCA) assessed the application as viable.
The 14 properties are all bungalows.
