Around 800 homes will be built at Daresbury Garden Village as an 11-year project gets the green light.

Redrow will deliver two, three and four-bedroom homes, including mews-style properties, semis and detached houses with work starting on former farmland off Delph Lane, alongside the Bridgewater Canal, later this month.

The development has been split into three stages – north, central and south – with the south parcel including the creation of an improved junction where Delph Lane meets the A56 Chester Road between Warrington and the M56.

The north area will follow around six months later and involves the creation of a new junction from the A558.

The development will take around 11 years to complete and will see homes interspersed with open spaces, green corridors and areas for formal and informal play.

Redrow is committed to making community payments totalling £8.5million to Halton Council which is earmarked for converting the A558 carriageway, off-site affordable housing elsewhere in the borough and supporting of existing bus routes while delivering a new bus link into Daresbury Business Park.

There will also be improvements to Runcorn East railway station, the creation of a pedestrian link under the West Coast mainline and walking and cycling routes to the site as well as a local centre including shops.

Jason Newton, managing director of Redrow North West based at Daresbury Park, said: “Daresbury Garden Village will be a flagship development for Redrow in the north west, adjacent to our regional headquarters.

“It has taken many years of negotiations, consultation, design work and detailed planning to reach this stage and we are delighted to be in a position where we can now begin.”