The site was previously a haulage/packing yard and the current work is to remove the remains of the old buildings ahead of the construction work.
Permission for the development was granted by the Development & Planning Authority in February.
Initially the original applicants, MH Construction Ltd, had sought permission to build 10 houses on the site under the old Urban Area Plan in August, 2016.
However, a decision was deferred until after a development framework was drawn up under the new Island Development Plan.
Following the plan’s publication, concerns were raised about developing the open green space, the density of housing, possible flooding risks and the fact that traffic issues could be generated by the new properties.
There were also worries about how it could affect people living nearby and the people visiting the cemetery across the road, as well as wildlife.
But after consideration of these matters by the Development & Planning Authority, no amendments were made.
Five of the new properties will have three bedrooms, while the rest will be two-bedroom. The structures will be a mixture of one-and-a-half and two-storey buildings.
PF+A Architecture director Peter Falla said that an application for a building licence was about to be submitted to Building Control and it would probably take between six and nine weeks for the go-ahead to be given for construction work to begin.
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