Plans for a 54-home estate in Medstead look for approval despite concerns it’s in the wrong place economically, socially and environmentally by parish councillors.

East Hampshire District Council will be on familiar turf tonight (Thursday, August 22) when they discuss plans to build on land behind Brackenbury Gardens and Boyneswood Close.

Plans for 45 homes on the same 2.41 hectare site were approved last year, but the William Lacey Group wants to increase the total number by nine.

And the result may well be the same with approval being recommended to the EHDC planning committee.

While planners admit there “will be some harm to the character and appearance of the area from development”, the principle has already been established while the council’s lack of a four-year supply of deliverable housing has put them in a tight space.

Some 22 affordable dwellings are proposed while a six-figure sum for funding pedestrian and cycle infrastructure is also a sweetener.