Essex-based housebuilder Weston Homes has gained planning permission to build its third residential development in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, consisting of 171 new homes. 

The £40m scheme will be located on a 1.15-hectare brownfield site which in the 1950s housed a gas holder. The original structure has since been decommissioned and dismantled.

The Tayfen Road development will consist of six new four- and five-storey buildings.

It will provide 68 one-bedroom and 103 two-bedroom apartments, 31 of which will be affordable housing.