THE site that was once home to Drummond Mill has been included in a list of possible housing sites in Bradford.

According to a new list of potential housing sites in West Yorkshire, the 7.5 hectare site on Lumb Lane could accommodate around 140 new homes.

And it is not the only mill site in Bradford to be included on the list.

At a meeting of West Yorkshire Combined Authority's Place Panel on Thursday, members will be given an update on how over £66 million of Government funding awarded to the region to build houses on brownfield sites will be allocated.

The fund was announced last year - and would be to deliver homes on brownfield sites that have proved difficult to develop in the past.

The Authority was also recently granted over £3 million for through the Housing Pipeline Revenue Fund.

A report to the place panel details what is being done to identify sites in West Yorkshire that this money could be spent on.

It includes details of a "pipeline" of potential sites drawn up by the Authority.

And in the coming weeks landowners will be asked to suggest other sites that are in need of development.

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The report says the sites on the list are ones that "are strategic in nature and require additional investment or resource to provide certainty of deliverability and subsequently move into a deliverable position."

Included on the list is the Drummond Mill site.

The Victorian Mill was destroyed in a huge blaze almost five years ago, and the prominent, privately owned site has been empty ever since.

Also on the list is Lister Mill. Although much work has been done to convert the Manningham Mill into flats, a large area of the mill site is still un-developed.

The report says a further 175 homes could be built on the privately owned site.

Bradford Council owned land at Crag Road in Shipley could provide 120 homes, and a long empty, privately owned brownfield site on Northside Road in Lidget Green could have space for 420 homes.

The list also includes the "South East Bradford Housing Growth Area." Bradford Council has previously identified land around Holme Wood as an area that could help meet a significant amount of the District's future housing needs. The list says the site, a mix of private and Council owned land, could accommodate 2,100 homes.

The Authority is expected to discuss which sites the £3.2m Housing Pipeline fund will be spent on in the coming months.

And decisions will also soon be made on which sites benefit from the much larger Brownfield Housing fund - funding that comes with the caveat that work must begin on all sites by 2025.

The £66.7 m fund must also be used to deliver at least 4,500 new homes.

A report to the panel says: " To ensure that the Combined Authority is able to reach the required number of homes it is envisaged that a wider call for projects will also be required.

"A call for projects is proposed to take place commencing in February/March to identify brownfield projects, wider than those included on the pipeline, that demonstrate market failure and require investment to unlock delivery.

"It should be noted that the funds will not be sufficient to support the delivery of all sites across the pipeline. As such, there will need to be a strong element of prioritisation and programme management in the deployment of the funding across the pipeline."