DETAILED plans for a major housing development on the edge of Newton Abbot have been revealed.

Bloor Homes have unrelieved their long-promised vision for the Houghton Barton development, to the west of the town with more than 1000 homes.

As well as the housing, the application would include a new primary school, a supermarket as the anchor tenant for the shopping parade, a community centre that could include primary healthcare facilities, and repurpose the existing Seale-Hayne Sports Hall as a space for additional community and leisure uses.

The Houghton Barton site cuts across a huge area and stretches from Forches Cross on the A382 Bovey Tracey Road westwards towards the Seale Hayne campus and then south to the former Hele Park Golf Course on the A383 Ashburton Road. 650 homes are currently being built as part of the Hele Park development along the Ashburton Road.

This week, the developers submitted two separate applications for the rest of the Houghton Barton site to Teignbridge Council planners.

The first (Application A) contains outline proposals for up to 900 homes, an employment site, a primary school, a local centre, leisure uses, a public common, and part of the link road through the site. Detailed proposals are submitted for the first 400 homes.

The second application (Application B) is an outline application for up to 250 new homes on adjacent fields that are allocated for development within the Local Plan, but developers say they have submitted this application because they cannot accommodate the full 1,100 homes within the allocated area.

The site is allocated for development in the Local Plan and over 160 hectares of land, 1,150 new homes, employment land, a new primary school, a new community centre, a shopping parade, and a multi-purpose community building, as well as a new link road that would connect the A382 with the A383, would be built.