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Major Gateshead home developer selected

A £347m scheme to build almost 2500 across Gateshead has been given the green light after the Council selected its property developer.

Gateshead Council’s cabinet has reportedly chosen to form a joint venture partnership with Evolution Gateshead, a consortium of Home Group and Galliford Try.

Under the £347m scheme, homes will be built at 19 sites over the next 15 to 20 years.

The council said it hoped work will start by early 2011.

The sites include Birtley Northside, the former rail freight depot on the Felling bypass, along with locations in Rowlands Gill, Chopwell, Bensham and Saltwell.

The announcement of the preferred developer comes at the end of a two-and-a-half year process.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ruth Mitchell .