Hull and East Yorkshire Forge Strategic Partnership with Homes England to Boost Housing and Regeneration
A new long-term agreement aims to accelerate housing development and revitalise underused land across the region by combining local priorities with national expertise.
By The SME Chronicle Newsroom
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Hull and East Yorkshire have entered into a significant long-term Strategic Place Partnership with Homes England, aiming to accelerate the delivery of new homes and regenerate underused land across the region.
The new agreement, signed by Mayor Luke Campbell MBE and Pat Ritchie CBE, Chair of Homes England, at Hull Guildhall, establishes a collaborative approach involving Hull and East Yorkshire Combined Authority (HEYCA), Homes England, Hull City Council, and East Riding of Yorkshire Council. This partnership seeks to move beyond isolated site developments towards a coordinated pipeline of priority projects.
By integrating Homes England’s national expertise earlier in the process, the partnership will address key challenges such as land availability, infrastructure, financial viability, and investment. It also ensures that new housing is planned in conjunction with essential services like transport, job creation, and broader community needs.
The initiative builds upon existing regeneration efforts. In Hull, the East Bank Urban Village project aims to transform vacant brownfield land near the River Hull into a neighbourhood with up to 850 homes, commercial spaces, and improved active travel links, with phase one construction anticipated in 2027. In East Yorkshire, Homes England is supporting plans for approximately 1,800 homes at Howden, alongside projects at Easton Road in Bridlington and the redevelopment of Alamein Barracks in Driffield.
This partnership also underpins HEYCA’s Local Growth Plan, connecting housing and regeneration with economic development drivers such as jobs, transport, and infrastructure. The aim is to view housing development holistically, providing a clearer vision for growth and investment needs to government, developers, and investors.
HEYCA will leverage its regional influence and devolved powers to link priority sites with wider infrastructure and regeneration opportunities. The long-term vision extends beyond merely increasing housing numbers to creating modern, mixed-use neighbourhoods on brownfield and underused land, integrating homes with businesses, green spaces, and essential community amenities.
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"There is huge, untapped potential across Hull and East Yorkshire. We have brownfield and underused land that can become new homes, new neighbourhoods and places where people genuinely want to live. I want us to be ambitious about what comes next. That means more city centre living, modern mixed-use neighbourhoods, bringing homes, businesses and green spaces together, and breathing new life into parts of our region that have been overlooked. We should be every bit as ambitious for Hull and East Yorkshire as anywhere else in the country. This partnership gives us another way to turn that ambition into something people can see and be proud of."
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"Hull and East Yorkshire has a proud history, strong communities and a clear ambition for the future. Through this Strategic Place Partnership, we will work with the Mayor and local partners to align investment, unlock growth and regeneration, and create opportunities that make a real difference to people across the region."
Following the signing, representatives from HEYCA and Homes England visited Hull Fruit Market and the East Bank to review completed regeneration projects and discuss future opportunities.
Based on information from the official source: Homes England (09/10/2026)
