A HOUSING association has been given the go-ahead to start work on two projects.

Nomad Housing Group is to build two houses on vacant lots in Park Drive, Langley Park, near Durham, and 11 more on land between Park Drive and Esh Hillside.

It will also demolish 11 old houses in Lily Gardens, Dipton, near Stanley, and replace them with eight properties. These will be six two-bed bungalows and a pair of three-bedroom semi-detached houses.

Derwentside District Council has granted planning permission for both schemes.

Nomad will pay the council £3,900 in lieu of providing play facilities at the Langley Park site.