A VISION to bring 660 new homes to two stretches of Stockton farmland has been unveiled. 

Developers from the Vistry Partnership are looking to create a new estate of two, three, and four-bedroom homes at Summerville Farm, off Harrowgate Lane. 

Their intentions near Hardwick were revealed in a scoping document submitted to Stockton Council earlier this month. 

If backed, two banks of housing will be split by the old railway line path with homes south of Letch Lane – but also on land north of Outwood Academy Bishopsgarth. 

The developer’s report shows 20 per cent of the homes would be classed as “affordable” if the scheme came to fruition – with two new T-junctions off Harrowgate Lane to access the new estates. 

The push comes as part of Stockton’s vast “Western Urban Extension” – which will see 2,150 extra homes on the town’s western flank in the coming years. 

Homes have been lined up in the “Local Plan” blueprint on farmland flanking the Hardwick Social Club.

The scoping document has also lined up a ten-year building timescale for the vision.

Plans come as Avant Homes build a 340 property estate further north off Durham Road after originally winning permission in 2015. 

Further south, a total of 969 homes were approved off Yarm Back Lane in a knife edge vote at Stockton planning committee in February.

When it came to traffic impacts, the scoping document forecasts how many extra cars and journeys the new homes would create. 

It calculated just under 2,000 extra journeys on Harrowgate Lane – with Yarm Back Lane, south of Darlington Back Lane, seeing an extra 1,880 journeys in a decade’s time. 

However, the report judged the environmental impacts of the new homes would be “mild to moderate” given the highway improvements to come in future. 

But the document also warned of increased demand on school places from the homes – and a potential deficit for primary school spots. 

The Vistry Partnership is part of the Vistry Group – formerly Bovis Homes.