Planners are set to restart work on considering plans for 150 new homes at Felixstowe after the developers submitted more information requested by council officers.

Developers Generator Optima want to start work on the homes in 2023, with the first of the new homes occupied in 2024. 

The company has submitted its proposals to East Suffolk Council for a 9.4-acre farmland site off Ferry Road and Gulpher Road, behind Conway Close and Swallow Close in Old Felixstowe.

The site - opposite where 196 homes are currently being constructed at Laureate Fields in Ferry Road - is earmarked for development in the local plan.

Generator Optima has now submitted an Environmental Statement to reactivate its application for the new properties.

The documents include consideration of the impact on the landscape and visual effects, biodiversity and ecology, transport and access.

The proposed development is on the edge of an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.

No details have yet been provided of the 150 homes - 50 of which will be designated affordable - of the layout of the estate.

The developer says: "All matters except for access are reserved, leaving the details of appearance, layout, scale and landscaping to be addressed at a later date.

"It is intended that the whole site will be in residential use or uses ancillary to the residential use, such as public open space and soft landscaping.

"A single point of vehicle access is proposed to be fixed, on the frontage to Ferry Road and offset to the north of the new junction with Ranson Road, with a footway to be added on the west side of the street to match the new provision already in place on the east side, delivered as part of the scheme for Laureate Fields."

Campaign group Fair Play for Felixstowe (FP4F), which represents nearly 300 residents, has lodged an objection to the homes - with concerns over the density of the homes, housing mix, lack of plans, and concern over drainage, sewerage and Ferry Road’s ability to take not only traffic from this site, Laureate Fields, and through traffic from the North Felixstowe Garden Neighbourhood as this is developed.

The group also considers starting work on site before Laureate Fields is complete will place an unfair burden on local residents.