Details of a development of 70 houses south of Filands just north of Malmesbury will be considered next week.

Bloor Homes already has been given outline permission for the development immediately to the east of the 180 houses of Filands View and north of land set aside for a new primary school mandated in that earlier scheme.

After the outline permission was granted Bloor Home put in details of the design and layout of the houses, but they were revised earlier this year.

Members of Wiltshire Council’s northern area planning committee will discuss the proposal at the committee’s meeting next week – and they have been recommended to give them approval.

The plans submitted show the houses will be arranged mainly in rows of back-to-back houses, with one row facing the main B40124 road, and the other main row a road in the estate to be constructed.

The Bloor Homes application says there will be: “Retention of hedgerows in Filands frontage and creating of landscape buffer to new development edge, and the use of back-to-back perimeter blocks wherever possible, ensuring the creation of a continuous frontage along streets and spaces.”

Open space and trees will be sited along the frontage to the main road and on the eastern edge of the site and around a flood prevention basin in the south west corner.

The developer says the layout: “Responds to views into and out of site and creates a vehicular link from the B4014 to Filands View in the form of a landscaped street.

It adds: “The development aspires to have a distinctive and unique identity, whilst reflecting positive elements of the existing surrounding built form.”

Bloor Homes says 28 -40 per cent - of the houses built will be made affordable homes.

The lower half of the space, shown in pictures by a red line is not developed, but Bloor’s application suggests the company has planned to build on that later- with roads from this development linking to it.

Malmesbury Town Council has objected to the plans.  

It says: “Provision for community needs has not been fully addressed and linkages and connections to neighbouring areas, the town and neighbouring development have not achieved.

“The site is reliant on development within the southern parcel, delivery of which cannot be guaranteed. “High quality design has not been achieved.

Despite this Wiltshire Council planners have recommended approval to the committee which meets at 2pm on August 3 at the council offices in Chippenham.