WORK to build more than 30 homes on the edge of the city could start soon if plans are approved next week but concerns remain the development will become isolated.

Plans for 36 homes on land next to the A4440 Southern Link Road go before Malvern Hills District Council's planning committee with a recommendation from officers that the application is approved.

Kempsey Parish Council fears the homes will become isolated from the rest of a planned urban extension and has said it was disappointed the plans do not seem to connect with other planned surrounding developments.

It called the plans "extremely disappointing."

The council also fears cars using Taylors Lane to get onto the A38 would cause an "unacceptably high risk."

The huge developments, which form part of urban extensions to the west and south of Worcester and were approved between 2017 and January last year, include a massive £500 million, 2,204-home 'super village between St Peter's and Kempsey, the 255-homes plan between the A4440 on the edge of the city and Taylor's Lane and two massive plans in Lower Broadheath near Worcester which total 2,365 homes.

In its objection, the parish council said: "St Modwen’s plans show total reliance on Taylors Lane as the only access to their site.

"There appears to be no future planning for any roads link up with the much larger Welbeck site to cater for private and public transport.

"If the plans are accepted as proposed, the St Modwen site is in danger of becoming a standalone and isolated development that will always have to rely on Taylors Lane, which it was hoped would have bollards and provide, in the main, for pedestrian and cycle access only.

"This would also prevent the lane being used as a cut through between Norton Road and the A38."

The plan includes a mix of two-to-five-bedroom homes, of which seven homes would made available as affordable.

St Modwen already has permission to build up to 255 homes between Taylor's Lane, Norton Lane and Broomhall Way as part of a major urban extension of Worcester, commercial and business space and public open space.

Much of the green space would be built as part of the first phase as well as a children's play area.

Allotments would also be built in the corner of the site near to the business park.

Malvern Hills District Council's northern planning committee meets on September 2.