Updated plans have been submitted for a development of 885 homes on fields on the outskirts of Leicester.
L&Q Estates has expanded the outline planning application for the massive scheme it is calling Hastings Fields, west of Leicester between the A47/Hinckley Road and Kirby Muxloe golf club.
It would be around a fifth of the size of the 4,000-plus home Lubbesthorpe scheme being built a mile or so away towards the M1 motorway and the village of Enderby.
Updated documents being considered by Blaby District Council show the scheme would now be bigger than the original 750 homes first suggested after more land was acquired by the developer.
The documents have been put together by Derbyshire development consultancy Pegasus Group for Warwick-based L&Q.
The plans show the scheme would have access from a new roundabout on the main road and stretch round the back of the Old Newtonians and Leicester Forest rugby clubs and the Leicester Ivanhoe Cricket Club and Leicester Forest East Tennis Club.
The site is a mile or so from Kirby Muxloe Castle – a fortified mansion built for Lord Hastings, who was executed by Richard III in 1483.
Pending planning, some two-thirds of the new homes could be built by the end of the decade and would range in size up to four bedrooms. The documents say 25 per cent of the development would be affordable homes.
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There would also be children’s play areas, green spaces, footpaths and a network of new roads.
The updated planning proposals state that a ‘Central Green’ area would remain at the heart of the masterplan and there would be a school on the western edge.
The documents say the site has been allocated for housing as part of a Blaby District Council local plan which was adopted last February.
Blaby District Council said there had been 188 public comments on the plans but has a policy of not publishing them on its planning website.
However in a letter submitted last year the clerk to neighbouring Leicester Forest East Parish Council said a new roundabout onto the busy A47 – a main route into Leicester – would cause unnecessary disruption to traffic flow.
The parish council says despite being part of the village of Kirby Muxloe there would be no access to it, and it fears there will be more traffic on the A47 as a result and more pollution.
Last December, Kirby Muxloe Parish Council wrote in to the district saying: “The development is in what is considered to be open countryside and therefore should not be given approval.
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“We consider what appears to be a single access and egress point from the Hinckley Road to be unacceptable because of the problems of providing access at all times for emergency vehicles.
“It would appear that the criteria re the number of access and egress points v the number of dwellings has been breached by a considerable margin.
“The proposed access and egress point/offset island on Hinckley Road will lead to delaying the flow of traffic on Hinckley Road and uncontrolled islands in themselves are a very real safety concern re national statistics.”
The council also said the primary school was also too close to the main vehicle routes into and out of the site.
Blaby District Council said comments on the application must be made by December 24 via www.blaby.gov.uk/online-applications.