FINAL plans for 247 more homes at the 3,300-home Great Western Park development in Didcot are set to be approved next week, despite local opposition against them.

A South Oxfordshire District Council planning officer has recommended its planning committee approve the proposals on Wednesday. But there has been opposition to the plans.

The principle of the 3,300-home development was approved in 2008 and the latest plan is for the appearance and layout of the 247 homes.

Didcot Town Council urged the district authority to refuse the proposals, over concerns including “inadequate” sewerage.

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Harwell Parish Council said it “has concerns about provision of parking in general”, drainage and the lack of east-west cycle routes.

A total of 13 neighbours’ letters were sent to the council, mostly from residents in The Slade, to also object to the plans.

Concerns included paths along the site boundary possibly attracting antisocial behaviour and homes being too close to the boundary.

But planning officer Natasha Ireland said homes would be “effectively drained without impacting upon the existing network”.

It will link to the wider Great Western Park development with a new sewer pipe under a railway line to the north to treatment works.

The development includes 70 affordable homes and work would have to start within two years of permission being given for the development, to the west of the town.

The committee will meet from 6pm at the council’s offices in Benson Lane, Crowmarsh Gifford.

Members of the public can attend the meeting.

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