A VILLAGE has been left waiting for a decision on whether another controversial plan to build more homes should be allowed to go ahead.

Wychavon District Council’s planning committee had been asked to rule on Spitfire Homes’ plan to build 30 homes in Crowle near Worcester but the application was withdrawn from the agenda at the last minute ahead of the meeting on Thursday.

The committee had been due to meet with a recommendation from the council’s planning officers that the work for the land off Church Road in Crowle should be given the go-ahead, despite the land being classed as open countryside, which should be strictly controlled, and outside of any designated housebuilding boundary for the village.

Wychavon District Council had also said it could not show it had enough land for housing to cope with demand for at least the next five years which meant that the plan for 30 new homes in Crowle should be supported.

The bigger home plans put forward in Crowle in recent years have all been rejected by council planners including a plan for 30 homes on the same site by the same developer almost eight years ago.

Spitfire Homes saw its plan to build 30 homes on the land opposite Crowle Parish Hall in 2015 rejected by Wychavon District Council after more than 150 objections were made against it by villagers in Crowle.

The earmarked land for 62 new homes is outside Crowle’s current designated development boundary but was put forward as a potential site for up to 40 new homes during the ongoing review of the South Worcestershire Development Plan (SWDP), the key county planning blueprint which sets out where thousands of homes will be built in the next 20 years.

However, in March last year, social housing provider Platform Housing had its plan to build 12 homes in Crowle backed by government planning inspectors just months after it was rejected by council planners.

More than 100 objections were raised against the plan by villagers, but the inspector still overruled the council and allowed the plan to go ahead.

Last year, Piper Homes put forward a plan to build 62 homes on land on the opposite side of Church Road in Crowle which was met with a wave of objections from villagers.