A RESIDENTIAL developer is planning to build nearly 150 homes on a 10-acre site in Kingswood.

English Partnerships has revealed that Bellway Homes made the highest tender for the brown field site, near junction eight of the M62, and the company plans to build 149 houses and apartments.

The site, which is near Falconers Green and Burtonwood and Westbrook parish hall, is part of the old RAF airbase and will be called Butts Green.

Bellway's plans for the development include a crescent-shaped apartment block as well as mixed house types.

Stan Shreeve, land director for Bellway Homes in Manchester, said: "Bellway has a number of redevelopments of brown field sites across the north west.

"This is an exciting new development in Kingswood, in a location which provides access to the M62 and surrounding countryside."

Bellway Homes is hoping to be on site by the end of May, with plans on display for the two- and three-storey, detached and semi-detached houses, as well as the apartment blocks.

The announcement for the Kingswood site comes just two months after David Wilson Homes was named as the developer of Chapelford Urban Village, which is just a few hundred metres down Burtonwood Road and also on the site of the former RAF airbase.

David Wilson Homes is hoping to build around 2,000 houses and apartments in the village, and the first phase of residential development is due for completion by the end of the year.

l David Wilson Homes has submitted two planning applications for Chapelford Urban Village, for land off Washington Drive and Boston Boulevard.

The first proposal details plans for 191 houses with garages, and the second is for 20 properties, which will form part of the first phase of the village development.