Planning chiefs will discuss proposed changes to the controversial Foundry Lea housing development in Bridport on June 15 following an unexplained delay.
Dorset Council planning committee members were due to decide if three drainage ponds at the site could be relocated last month before the item was removed from the agenda at the last minute.
Committee chairman Cllr David Shortell said the discussion had been delayed for ‘technical reasons’. So far, the council has not explained the cause of the delay. Council paperwork showed members were due to decide if one pond on the 760-home estate could be reduced in size, while another is moved further north and the third one is re-shaped. Members were told if changes to the ponds were approved, they might delegate final approval for the overall scheme to officers, allowing the main building work to begin.
Proposals for the 43-hectare site off the A35 include 94 per cent houses and six per cent flats.
Some 70 per cent will be three or four-bedroom homes and 302 of them will be ‘affordable’.