Wrexham mulls plan for 900 homes on 100 acres
Harworth Group’s £200m investment in the land at Erlas Park would be completed by 2035, if work starts as scheduled in Q2 2026.
Following a consultation last year, outline plans have been smoothed out and submitted to Wrexham Council by J10 Planning, and indicate a provisional housing mix of 331 two-bed, 428 three-bed, and 141 four-bed homes.
Harworth has not yet selected a delivery partner for the development, which sits on 100 acres within Wrexham’s Local Plan housing allocation.
The first phase would span nearly 37 acres with the potential to host around 600 homes. Phase two, covering 15 acres, would be capable of delivering the remaining 300 homes to make up the 900.
Harworth has proposed that 20% of the properties would be affordable, equating to 180 units. Detailed designs of the properties are yet to be finalised.
Playing fields covering 22.5 acres would run alongside Cefn Road at the site’s eastern boundary, with various SUDS basins around the site’s perimeter serving as natural viewpoints for the houses they face.
The project is estimated to create around 200 construction jobs over five years of building. Credit: via planning documents
According to J10 Planning, once complete, the mega-scheme could deliver £2.4m a year in council tax payments while adding £27m to the local economy.
The statement continues that if local services such as schools or medical centres need to expand, the reasonable costs of the extra capacity will be met by the developer through a legal agreement.
Harworth’s application marks the second large-scale scheme it has planned in the region, with an outline application in for a 660-home neighbourhood in Wistaston, Cheshire.
Those on the project team include Tyler Grange, TetraTech, Adept, UCML, Reading Agricultural, Element Sustainability, Miller Goodhall, Alfredson & York, Stantec, RJK, an ARC/Magnitude.
To view the application, use the planning reference number P/2025/0427 in Wrexham Council’s planning portal.
What about 1 bedroom properties for the younger generations who are unlikely to have children & the growing number of single older people, eg, divorced, retirees?
With a median basic wage of £25-£27k in Wrexham, in the near future, houses over £240k will be harder to sell. This is one of the reasons why houses are turned into multiple occupancy. Since Wrexham house prices are cheaper than in Cheshire & parts of Shropshire, more people from England will be buying these properties, either to own or rent, eg, holidays.
By David Parsonage
Do Harworth build homes or are they just a landowner/promotor obtaining planning and then selling land off. Commitments for timescales to complete would then seem meaningless.
By Anonymous
Some decent sized windows on a new build estate for once.
By Jim
The disconnect between cheap land and ‘it’s cheap because there’s no industry or desire to live there’ is bizarre. If the UK has a housing crisis, then first repossess the student and HMO slums, holiday lets, and land-banked buildings. Then talk about concreting over the countryside in stupid places like this.
By John Smith
There are more than enough houses in the local area for sale currently without the ones that are sat empty. The amount of houses built over the last couple of years is massive and always taking more and more green valuable space. There is so much wildlife roaming these fields and protected crested newts. The traffic is already horrendous at peak times and wrexham does not have the infrastructure for the population it currently has.
By Kelly Evans