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Search the Public Notice PortalControversial plans to build up to 250 new homes next to a Herefordshire village have passed the first hurdle.
Earlier this month land promoter Gleeson Land asked Herefordshire Council for a "screening opinion" on whether its proposal to develop an 11.5-hectare roughly square field at Withington east of Hereford would require a full environmental impact assessment (EIA).
The site, which is not earmarked for housing in the parish's neighbourhood development plan, would require new road access onto the A4103 immediately to the south.
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Gleeson's application drew over 20 objections from residents, who raised concerns about water supply and drainage infrastructure, traffic, noise, and the impact on the character of the existing village.
But the council's development manager Simon Withers has now said in a letter to the applicants that though their proposal meets the initial threshold for being an "EIA development", being above five hectares and 150 homes, officers concluded it "is not likely to give rise to significant environmental effects".
An EIA screening is often the first stage of larger housing developments, with an outline or full planning application for the scheme likely to follow once the EIA question has been dealt with.
Local parish council chair Coun Paul Andrews said online to "expect that later on this year or early next year".
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