The houses of Melton House and Melton Hill were demolished in the 1950s. South Hunsley School opened in 1956, on the site of the 1840 "Eastdale", which was demolished in the late 1800s. Further houses were built in the village of Melton during the 1960s, at around the same time the scope of extraction of clay and chalk around Melton Bottom Quary was considerably expanded – the worked area expanded south and west, and the Humber Cement works clay extraction pits also expanded west into Welton Ings. The section of the A63 road passing south of Melton was opened in 1963.