600 homes could be built between Dussindale and Thorpe End

Lothbury Property Trust received outline planning permission to build 600 homes near Thorpe St Andrew from Broadland District Council in June 2013.

The Thorpe End village sign (Image: Sophie Wyllie)

Those plans included a link road, 13 hectares of employment land, retail and community facilities and a rail halt - for a potential rail station - on land at Brook and Laurel Farm in Green Lane. 

The 57-hectare development would also be between Dussindale and Thorpe End and the link road would be between Plumstead Road East and the Broadland Business Park.

Another plot of land off Plumstead Road East, between Thorpe End village and Dussindale, which could be developed into hundreds of new homes (Image: Sophie Wyllie)

Green Lane could also be closed off to traffic to become a walking and cycling route.

Lothbury had to put in a reserved matters application within a decade of outline approval but it has put in a new Environmental Impact Assessment Scoping report.

A Broadland spokesman said: "This has been submitted as a precursor to a potential new outline planning permission and is not linked to the outline planning permission granted in 2013.

"The agent is unlikely to pursue any kind of reserved matters submission under the 2013 approval which expires in June."

The majority of the homes and employment areas would be two storeys but could be up to four storeys high in appropriate areas and one part of the development would be next to a railway line.

Ian Mackie, Conservative county and district councillor for Thorpe St Andrew (Image: Ian Mackie)

Ian Mackie, Conservative county and district councillor for Thorpe St Andrew, said: "This scheme is part of a complex development with various organisations.

"It is important it is done correctly in consultation to deliver green travel infrastructure but this is over 10 years old and to avoid land banking and further delays this action is needed to take this forward."

The proposed sites of the Brook and Laurel Farm development near Dussindale and Thorpe End (Image: Broadland District Council)

A woman who lives next to the site said: "It wouldn't be ideal."

But a Thorpe End homeowner said: "We need more houses to breathe new life into the village."

Lothbury declined to comment.

One area off Green Lane between Dussindale and Thorpe End village which could be developed into housing (Image: Sophie Wyllie)