A PLAN to allow more people to move into new homes before important roadworks are completed looks set to be approved.

Two new planning applications, submitted by Persimmon and Redrow, look to change a number of planned road improvements as part of a major 765-home development off Pulley Lane in Droitwich.

Council planners had approved the major homes plan under the instruction that nobody could move into any of the homes before a number of road improvements had been carried out.

Wychavon District Council and the developer signed an agreement which allowed for 90 homes to be moved into – but that number has already been passed.

Almost 40 per cent of the homes are already occupied - with people living in 105 homes on the Redrow and Taylor Wimpey part of the site while 188 are occupied on the Persimmon side.

If the application was approved, people could move into a maximum of 364 homes after certain parts of the roadworks had been completed.

The new conditions state Pulley Lane would have to widened and work on its junction with the A38 would have to be completed before Persimmon could allow people to move in.

Cycle and pedestrian links in Primsland Way would have to be finished before the 100th home was occupied and improvements at the A38/A4538 junction in Martin Hussingtree would have to be finished before the 251th home had been filled.

For the Persimmon homes, pedestrian links to the east of the site in Nightingale Close, Jackdaw Lane and Tagwell Close would have to have been finished before the 75th home was occupied.

Works at the A38/Copcut Lane/Pulley Lane junction would have to have started before the 202nd home had been moved into.

If the planning applications are approved, 162 homes on the Redrow side and 202 homes on the Redow would be available for people to live in.

A report, to be discussed by the district council’s planning committee today (April 4), said council planners had concluded the changes would not have a detrimental effect on the roads around the homes.

Highways bosses at Worcestershire County Council also had no objections to the changes.

Redrow's plan for the site includes 500 homes, a 200-bed care home, shops, offices, a restaurant and café, a pub, a takeaway, a police post and an indoor bowls facility.

Persimmon are building 265 homes.