Nearly 1,500 homes are set to be built on brownfield sites across the region following a cash boost from the East Midlands Combined County Authority (EMCCA). A dozen schemes in Nottinghamshire, Nottingham, Derby, and Derbyshire have been identified for grants to support housing development on brownfield land through the government’s Brownfield Housing Fund, which has allocated nearly £17million to EMCCA to deliver the developments. Mayor of the East Midlands, Claire Ward, who called for more homes to be built on brownfield sites during her campaign to be elected as the East Midlands’ first May…