PLANS for how a new 200-home development in Maldon will look are set to be approved by council bosses on Thursday.

Developers Taylor Wimpey bought the parcel of land which is part of the South Maldon Garden Suburb, where 1,000 homes will be built, last year.

It subsequently submitted a reserved matters application for 200 homes on land off Wycke Hill.

Of these 83 are set to be affordable.

Maldon District Council will decide the application at an extraordinary planning meeting.

Officers have recommended the plans are approved.

A report, set to go before councillors, said Taylor Wimpey had “comprehensively met” the vision for garden communities.

It said: “Well-designed homes are provided for in a garden suburb setting with extensive areas of open space and infrastructure.”

The report added: “The development will provide a wide range of keys planning benefits for the site, the surrounding area, and to the district in general.

“These benefits include, but are not limited to, the delivery of market and affordable housing contributing to the housing delivery during the period of the Local Development Plan and retaining the districts commitment to provide a deliverable housing land supply.”

It said the plans would “provide a development of character, diversity, safety, legibility, adaptability and sustainability”.

The South Maldon project is made up of a development of up to 1,000 homes south of Limebrook Way, 320 homes on a site called Wycke Hill North and up to 120 homes on Wycke Hill South.

The meeting takes place at the council offices in Princes Road, Maldon, from 7.30pm tomorrow.