A NEW housing estate could be built in Hurworth after plans were submitted for a new development to the north of the village.

Developer Banks Property, part of The Banks Group, is seeking planning permission for 100 family homes on a 5.4 hectare site off Roundhill Road.

Banks says that the development will be in keeping with the existing character, size and scale of Hurworth village.

After holding a public exhibition to introduce the project in May, the County Durham-based firm has been working to finalise the details of its proposals and has now submitted its plans to Darlington Borough Council.

Traffic management measures for both Roundhill Road and other locations in the village have been included in the plans, while measures to address local flooding and drainage concerns have also been developed.

Lewis Stokes, community relations manager at The Banks Group, said: “We’ve been working hard to finalise our proposals for Roundhill Road as quickly as possible, and are very pleased to have now reached this important project milestone.

“At the beginning of our local consultations, we committed to this scheme being no larger than 100 properties, which is less than six per cent of the number of homes that presently make up the village, and we’ve delivered on that commitment in the planning application that has now been submitted.

“There is a clear and increasingly pressing need across North-East England to increase the available supply of quality homes, and our Roundhill Road scheme has been designed as a way of enabling more young families in the region to live in the places where they grow up or move to where they wish to be.”

Mr Stokes said that comments received from Hurworth residents and businesses over the last few months have been ‘extremely useful’ in helping the project team finalise the details of the proposals and said the company was grateful to those who responded to the consultation.

He added: “We are looking to create a high quality new residential community in what is a wholly appropriate location for this type of development, and hope that our planning application’s many merits will be recognised by Darlington Borough Council’s planning committee when it comes to assess it.”

A decision on the Roundhill Road, Hurworth development is expected from the council’s planning committee before the end of the year.