LAND beset by anti-social behaviour and fly-tipping is set to become home to more than 100 houses – if councillors back advice from planners. Officials at Middlesbrough Council have recommended 106 properties – ranging from two-bed terraces to detached four-bedroom properties – can be put up on the former Erimus Training Centre site south of College Road, in Thorntree. The seven-acres of derelict land was sold off by the authority last year before plans were lodged by Sheffield-based Gleeson Regeneration Ltd on the brownfield land. Housing has been lined up on the site in Middlesbrough Council’s 2014 Local Plan after it sat unused and decaying for a number of years. Council officers have urged members of the planning committee to give the proposal the green light. However, the council’s highways team has warned of delays to bus services and more traffic on an already congested Cargo Fleet Lane. Its report added: “Because the network is already congested at peak times, the introduction of additional traffic will have a significant detrimental impact on the operation of the network in terms of journey time along the corridor and the length of queueing at junctions.” There were also five objections sharing misgivings about the proposed estate – ranging from worries over highway safety, to possible pollution from the site and loss of privacy for neighbours. Buildings from the training centre were demolished in 2005 and the council agreed the land should be sold off for housing last year. Access to the proposed estate has been lined up from a new T-junction on College Road. Brambles and Thorntee councillor Terry Lawton shared his concerns with  over flooding and measures needing to be put in place to solve highways problems. But fellow ward members Geraldine and Peter Purvis told planners they welcomed the housing bid given the anti-social behaviour it had neglect it had suffered over the years. Councillors will decide whether to back the recommendation next Friday (September 7).