Homes England hopes to submit an outline planning application this summer for a proposed scheme to build 550 homes on a former industrial site in Plymouth.

The government’s housing delivery agency has appointed Cognition Land and Water as contractor to demolish a number of large derelict buildings covering 30,000m² at the  Marsh Mills former china clay drying site, before delivering the new homes at Coypool Park.

Hazardous materials will also need to be cleared away from the site before the homes, community facilities and nearly 12ha of improved woodland can be put in.