Pheasant Hill Park, Doncaster | Harworth Group plc

Overview & Vision

The building of new homes on the former Rossington colliery site – now known as Pheasant Hill Park – forms a key part of a wider ‘Gateway to the Sheffield City region’ programme that is a game-changing proposition for Yorkshire’s economy.

Less than a mile from Junction 3 of the M18 and adjacent to the newly built Great Yorkshire Way, the site is ideally positioned to meet a significant part of Doncaster’s future housing needs with the scheme playing a vital role in the continued regeneration of the area, which also includes the economically significant iPort, which will deliver 6m sq ft of employment space once fully built.

Pheasant Hill Park has outline planning permission for 1,200 new homes in addition to a mix of commercial and community uses including a hotel, restaurant, fast food outlet, petrol filling station, community building and a school. Following the grant of planning permission, we implemented an extensive earthworks strategy to create development platforms and began the process of providing infrastructure to facilitate the sale of serviced development land parcels.

Development Progress

Since the opening of the Great Yorkshire Way in 2016, construction of new homes at Pheasant Hill Park has accelerated with Taylor Wimpey and Harron Homes building out over 165 homes in the first phase of land sales. In 2019, Taylor Wimpey and Barratt Homes purchased two parcels of land to build 172 and 184 three- and four-bedroom homes, respectively, over the next two years.

Land has also been sold to Lidl to build a convenience store on site, which will diversify the scheme and enhance the attractiveness of the site as a place to live. The store opened to the public towards the end of 2018.

Before Harworth Group began development of the site, the village of Rossington suffered from poor vehicle access. We therefore worked closely with Doncaster Council, Peel (the owner of Robin Hood Airport) and Verdion (the developer of iPort) to develop and promote the Great Yorkshire Way (previously known as FARRRS), which directly links Junction 3 of the M18 to Robin Hood Airport. This road was critical to opening up employment and housing land to create new jobs and to meet the demand for new homes.