A decision will be made on a controversial plan to build more than 60 homes in a village.

The application in Crowle near Worcester, which would see 62 homes built in the village by Piper Homes, will go before planners at Wychavon District Council next week with a recommendation it is given the green light.

A total of 40 objections were made against the plan for the land off Church Road in Crowle with villagers saying the village would not cope.

The recommendation from Wychavon’s planning officers that the homes should be approved comes despite the application missing key information on the planned mix of homes, affordable housing, biodiversity and highways - information that was not made available when the committee report was published.

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Highways officers at Worcestershire County Council have also said the plan should be rejected without the missing information.

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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.

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Last year, social housing provider Platform Housing had its plan to build 12 homes on the opposite of Froxmere Road backed by the government’s planning inspector months after being rejected by council planners and despite villagers raising more than 100 objections.

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Spitfire Homes want to build 30 homes on land less than half a mile away from Froxmere Road off the village’s Church Road with a decision still to be made by council planners.

Gleeson Land also put forward plans to build 65 homes alongside a potential new primary school off Froxmere Road in May.

At the moment, the developer plans to use almost ten of the 46 acres it owns off the village’s Froxmere Road to build the homes and has earmarked other parts of the land for a new primary school and community orchards or allotments.