York Health Trust has applied for permission to build more than 100 homes on land close to the city centre.

The trust has already received approval for its outline planning application and has now drawn up detailed plans in conjunction with the developer Wainhomes (Yorkshire) Ltd.

The developer has already exchanged contracts on the land and if the project gets the go-ahead from the City of York Council, 81 houses and 51 flats will be built at White Cross Road on the old City Hospital site.

Mick Britton, area development control officer for City of York Council, said: "The site was allocated for development in the draft local plan.

"The area has always been allocated for development ever since the health authority vacated it two years ago."

The final decision is likely to be taken at a planning committee meeting some time in the spring and if successful, a three-year programme of building will begin in April or May, 1999, with the first residents moving in during the second half of next year.

Peter Wood, managing director of Wainhomes Ltd, said: "There is significant interest in York in property, particularly new property, which is within walking distance of the city centre."

He said the homes would be a mixture of two-, three- and four-bedroom properties, both flats and houses, with off-street parking areas and gardens.

He anticipated some of the properties would appeal to employees of York District Hospital, and some would be included in the affordable housing scheme, although at this stage he could not predict how many.

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