Wakefield Council's cabinet agreed a Leeds City Region development programme asking for cash to pay for £29m of home building and infastructure for the district – including other new housing growth points in Craven, Barnsley and Calderdale – from 2008 to 2016-17.

Major sites listed for Wakefield include Castleford's former Lambson's and Hickson's chemical factories, Pontefract's old Prince of Wales colliery and Featherstone's Girnhill Lane estate.

Council leader Peter Box said: "We are laying the foundations of our bid to be a housing growth point.

"Last week we were pleased at a government decision which took an eco-town in the district off the agenda, but housing growth needs resources.

"We support the housing growth point bid subject to getting those resources.

"Once we get those the development will be subject to the fullest consultation of elected members and communities."

Central government chose Wakefield district as a housing growth point – areas where the rate of homebuilding is accelerated to meet national targets – in July.

The council can now build up to 1,900 new properties a year, with plans initially concentrating on the Five Towns, and access extra government resources.

The joint development programme says the Five Towns could "collectively accommodate up to 8,700 (homes), the majority of which would be developed in Castleford and Pontefract."

Fryston Colliery and Knottingley's Riverside are are also named as major sites in the documents, which present alternative options for healthy and gloomy economic climates.

A housing growth partnership will be established and consultation will take place when the Department for Communities and Local Government approves the programme.