Detailed plans for 136 new homes for Innsworth will be discussed next week.

Plans for Phase 7 of the huge development on land north of Innsworth Lane are on the agenda for Tewkesbury Borough Council's Planning Committee on Tuesday (April 15).

Outline planning permission for a mixed development of up to 1,300 homes and 8.31 hectares of employment land was granted in 2017. Development on the site is ongoing, with this latest planning application for detail of access, appearance, landscape and scale of the 136 homes planned for Phase 7 of Whittle Gardens.

Plans included 18 two-bed homes, 43 three-beds, 67 four-bed homes and eight five-beds in a mix of small terraces, semi-detached and detached house.

There will be 46 affordable houses on the development, made up of 28 units for affordable rent and 18 for intermediate housing (shared ownership). These will be evenly distributed across the site in small cluster groups and will be indistinguishable from the open market homes.

The new homes will be located on a 4.25-hectare, predominantly undeveloped greenfield site to the north of Phases 1, 2 and 4 and east of Phase 6.

Innsworth Parish Council has objected to the proposal in relation to foul water and flooding. The council has raised concerns about flooding affecting parishioners and that existing sewers can't cope. A further comment was made in relation to a Construction Method Statement (CMS) not being provided and concerns about working hours and how the site would be accessed.

Severn Trent raised no objection to the proposals and confirmed that foul sewage for this phase (and all phases for site) is to discharge to a sewage pump station and there is a scheme being implemented to provide capacity for the whole 1,300 home site.

The Environment Agency raised no objection and confirmed that all proposed homes and attenuation features are outside the area of high flood risk.

Objections were also received from local residents around delivery and construction times on site being in breach of the construction hours.

But planning officers at Tewkesbury Borough Council are recommending that the committee approves the plans.

Council officers assessed the Design Compliance Statement (DCS) during the planning application and asked for amendments to the scheme, including parking arrangements, street scene, boundary treatments and house types.

They consider that the updated plans reflect and build on the principles and parameters set out when the entire scheme was granted outline planning permission.

The landscape strategy for Phase 7 focuses on keeping key features within green corridors and larger areas of public open space to integrate the site with its surroundings. The existing hedgerows and woodland areas will be retained, with only short sections removed to provide for necessary movement routes.

Verges have been incorporated along secondary streets to allow for tree planting, with new hedge and shrub planting outside homes, and green corridors to provide a green edge and enhance the character and appearance of the area.

The report to the committee concluded: "On balance, the proposal would accord with the outline planning permission and principles and parameters therein, and the proposed development would be acceptable in terms of access, layout, scale, appearance and landscaping."

The Planning Committee will discuss the development on Tuesday, April 15.