Thanet council plans to start work this summer on a £5m social housing development in Ramsgate which the local authority said would boost the town’s conservation area.

The council will build a total of 26 homes for social rent across two sites in the Kent coastal town, on Sussex Street and King Street.

The King Street scheme will feature 14 three- and four-bedroom flats in a four-storey block and four two-bedroom mews houses on a site previously occupied by a garage building.