Plans for a community-led housing development on the site of a former York library could be lodged in August, according to timescales set out in a council document.
A planning application for the homes, which are set to be built on the site of the recently-demolished Tang Hall Library, could go before councillors in November.
City of York Council’s decision record stated works would start in February if the plans are approved.
It added the homes would be built by December 2026, meaning the first residents could move in the following January if the project meets proposed milestones.
Proposed timescales for the development, from Kendal House Properties Ltd, comes as the council has approved releasing £51,933 in Government funding for the project.
The council accepted £116,000 from a Government pot to redevelop brownfield sites in 2021 when it decided to dispose of the site.
The empty library building, in Fifth Avenue, has been demolished and the council has completed some of the works needed to prepare it for development.
Leftover cash from the Government funding has been granted to the developer to stop it being clawed back after the Thursday, July 31 deadline to spend it.
The council was not able to complete the enabling works because a viable scheme with a developer behind it has only recently been brought forward, according to the decision record.
The former library closed after it was replaced by the Tang Hall Explore site, in Mossdale Avenue, in 2018.
The library was designed by York’s City Architect Ernest Firth and opened in 1962.
It was one of the earliest examples of a branch library built within a housing estate in the UK, according to the University of York’s C20 Architectural Gazetter research project.
The library was followed by a number of others across the UK built in housing estates close to other community facilities such as shopping centres.