Housebuilder Honey to build 95 new homes near Barnsley in £23.5m development

Iris, off Barnburgh Lane near Barnsley, will feature 16 housetypes which Honey says have all been designed to combine “style, substance and sustainability”.

Prices at Iris range from £184,995 for a two-bedroom mid-terrace property to £374,995 for a four-bedroom detached home. Honey expects to launch a four-bedroom detached showhome at the development in January.

Work at Iris is due to start in October with the first residents expected to move into their new homes in summer 2024.

As well as providing new homes for the area, Sheffield-based Honey is also making contributions of £540,000 to education, £71,000 to sustainable travel and £153,000 for green space/open space for initiatives that aim to benefit the local community.

Honey chief executive, Mark Mitchell, said: “We are very pleased to now be in a position to start building our first ever development in Yorkshire.

“Iris will showcase the style, substance and sustainability of the type of homes we will deliver on future sites that we acquire throughout the county and beyond.

“We believe our range of new homes at Iris are unmatched at their price points and will provide much needed high specification residential properties for people living locally or moving to the area.”

Honey is backed by private equity firm Alchemy Partners and its Alchemy Special Opportunities Fund IV which it said has £937m of fully committed capital.

The housebuilder’s first development, a £14m, 50-new home scheme called Amber in South Normanton, Derbyshire, is currently underway.

Honey has also submitted plans and exchanged contracts to deliver a £20.35m, 75-new home development called Hazel in Matlock, Derbyshire.

Since launching, Honey has secured eight sites located in Yorkshire and Derbyshire that will deliver 1,000 plots and revenues of £300m.