Plans for as many as 100 new affordable homes could be brought forward due to a £500,000 investment by a Suffolk council.

West Suffolk cabinet members agreed unanimously to provide Barley Homes with the six figure sum.

Barley Homes is the authority’s wholly-owned housing company — a commercial business set up and controlled by the council to build and manage homes.

The investment would be used to bring schemes for as many as 91 new affordable homes to the pre-application planning stage.

Cllr Richard O’Driscoll, West Suffolk’s lead for housing, said key sites had been identified, but details on their location were not revealed.

Once the schemes get through the pre-application stage, further funding will be needed to ensure the homes are built.

The council projected the cost of all 91

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