Plans are pushing ahead to build 24 flats as part of a council's wider project to tackle homelessness.

Dover District Council's cabinet voted to acquire land at Poulton Close, Dover, for as part of a wider project to create 500 affordable houses and flats in the district.

The council will acquire vacant land next to St Radigund's Community Centre and building will start this summer.

The overgrown brownfield site has been vacant for years and had been leased to the centre, which has now handed it back.

This would be interim housing that would include studio flats, one, two and three bedroomed homes and wheelchair accessible flats.

There will be three-storey blocks on a 0.35 hectare (0.86 acre) of land.

An officers' report to the cabinet said: "There is an acute need for interim housing in the district, to ensure that the need for nightly paid or bed and breakfast accommodation for residents in emergency housing need can be minimised."

Other plans for affordable homes include 26 homes at Napchester Road in Whitfield, 16 at Kimberley Close, Buckland, and eight at Stockdale Gardens in Deal.