OUTLINE plans have been submitted to build a new housing estate on green belt land in Hollywood.

A planning application to build 50 new homes and a community use building on land off Houndsfield Lane has been put forward by Your Land Partner to Bromsgrove District Council.

The site has previously been submitted to the council’s call for sites, but no formal assessment of the site has been published yet.

It is proposed that 26 homes will be affordable, while the remainder will be sold at market price.

The community use building is proposed to either be a shop, hall or health facility and the provision of public open space which could include a children’s play area is also included in the plans.

If approved, the development will be accessed via Houndsfield Lane, and crossings will be installed along the road and Hollywood Lane as well as footway improvements.

A document accompanying the planning supplication notes: “Whilst the site is greenfield land proposed for housing development, which would amount to inappropriate development in the green belt by definition (by reason of not being previously developed land or a listed appropriate use), the proposal would lead to no greater impact on the openness of the green belt, and there would be no conflict with the purposes of the green belt.

“The site is located on the edge of a sustainable location, and the accompanying statements, submitted in support of the application, demonstrate that there are no technical reasons as to why planning permission cannot be granted.

“The site is unconstrained in terms of other designations and is not, for example, considered to make a significant contribution to landscape character and the visual setting of the village.”