The use of this land as allotments came to an end in early 1990’s, and it was decided that it would be an ideal place to build much needed affordable housing for local families. Unfortunately, the land was outside the South Hams District Council permitted development area, and until this was changed no building could take place. This started a two-year task to get the boundary moved so that plans for the new houses could be realised.

Building started in 1996 and the first 8 x 2 bedroomed houses were completed the following year, mainly funded from the Kingsbridge Feoffees own reserves.

In 2003, another 4 x 2 bedroomed houses were built from funds made from the sale of very steep land at the top of the site, which was deemed unsuitable for building.