DOZENS more homes could be built next to the site of a former coach depot on the edge of the city.

Plans for a development of 79 affordable homes at the old Astons Coaches site off Bath Road, between Worcester and Kempsey, were given the green light earlier this year.

Now proposals for a neighbouring site have been put forward.

Living Space Housing wants to build 50 affordable homes on the site and say it would help Malvern Hills District Council address the current “significant shortfall” in affordable housing across the district.

DEVELOPMENT: The site would form part of the southern extension of the cityDEVELOPMENT: The site would form part of the southern extension of the city (Image: Living Space Housing/Ordnance Survey)

The homes would be a mix of two, three and four-bedroom houses, plus one and two-bedroom flats.

Planning documents say the houses will be in pairs of semi-detached homes as well as “a small terrace”. There will also be three-storey blocks of flats.

“This is similar to the recently approved development at the Ketch roundabout and is the same scale as the connecting residential development,” planning documents state.

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Access to the site would come from a road being built as part of the previously-approved neighbouring development.

According to the plans, an existing public right of way footpath - KP-509, which runs along the western boundary of the site - will be “unchanged by the proposals”.

“No new public rights of way are proposed,” the documents say. “The public right of way will pass by the proposed public open space”.

That open space will connect with the former Astons Coaches site via “an informal mown grass path which is continued through the proposed development”.

To stay in line with planning policies, 40 per cent of the proposed development would be classed as “green infrastructure”.

Living Space Housing says it will distribute leaflets to residents notifying them of the application and requesting their feedback.

“During the determination of the application, Living Space Housing will work actively to address comments from local residents and statutory consultees,” it says.