A PLAN to build affordable housing on a former city golf course looks set to be approved when councillors meet next week.

Social housing provider Platform Housing Group has submitted plans to build a mix of flats, homes and bungalows on part of the old Tolladine golf course in Worcester.

Worcester City Council's planning committee meets on Thursday (January 21) with a recommendation from council officers that the plan is backed.

A report, due to be discussed by councillors, said: "On balance, I am of the opinion that the submitted scheme has indicated more than sufficient detail to warrant approval.

"In fact, it is considered that the proposal is a well-designed site utilising the full potential of the site within a sensitive location."

Several neighbours in The Fairway, the road which the new homes would be accessed from, have said they were concerned by increase traffic especially entering onto and exiting from the already-very-busy Tolladine Road.

Other neighbours have questioned whether the homes are needed when plans for affordable housing in nearby Rose Avenue has already been approved.

Several objections have been submitted against the plan by local residents most concerned by the increase in traffic and the noise and disturbance if the homes are allowed to be built.

Highways officers at Worcestershire County Council raised no objection.

The homes would be a mix of five two-bed flats, a three-bed bungalow, six three-bed homes and four four-bed homes.

The latest plans come after permission to build nine four-bed homes expired having been approved in 2011.

Platform said the number of planned affordable homes corresponded with the council's housing policies and there would be no overlooking issues.