A major new housing development looks set to get the go-ahead beside the main Norfolk coast road.

Lovell Partnerships and Le Strange Estates applied to build 60 new homes, 61 housing with care apartments and 39 care ready bungalows on land beside the A149 Lynn Road on the outskirts of Hunstanton.

West Norfolk council's planning committee is being recommended to approve the proposals when it meets on Monday, April 24.

A report to councillors says the site, south of the Hunstanton Commercial Park, has been earmarked as suitable for development.

It says the 61 housing with care apartments would be built in a single block.

Eastern Daily Press: The site of the development is next to the main A149The site of the development is next to the main A149 (Image: Chris Bishop)

In a statement, the applicants' agent says: "The physical form of the extra care housing scheme is vital to supporting the right environment for people to live and age well in their own home.

"The accommodation and facilities are designed to work together in harmony under the one roof, wrapping around the residents to create a safe, secure, and engaging environment.

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"Residents living in extra care housing often experience improved health, mobility and cognitive function when moving into schemes from their own individual homes in the wider community." 

Some 50pc of the total of 160 homes, including 20pc of the houses planned alongside the apartment block would be affordable.

Eastern Daily Press: Land earmarked for more than 150 new homes at HunstantonLand earmarked for more than 150 new homes at Hunstanton (Image: Chris Bishop)

Hunstanton Town Council supports the proposals. Historic England objected because of their impact on the setting of listed Smithdon High School and the ruined St Andrew's Chapel. 

But the report to councillors concludes: "The public benefit of this scheme in providing a care home, housing with care, affordable housing and market housing within the borough, and the contribution made to the local economy from the future residents of the development is considered to outweigh the amount of harm caused."

A similar scheme, comprising 60 housing with care units and 60 new homes was given outline permission in 2017.