A DETAILED planning application for a new housing estate on the edge of Winchester is expected imminently.

The news was discussed at a meeting about the 200-home Pitt Manor development organised by Winchester MP Steve Brine on Thursday (July 25).

The meeting involved representatives from Turley Associates and Orchard Homes, city and county councillors, senior council officers, as well as St Peter’s School.

Pitt Manor was granted outline planning permission in 2012 after an appeal to the planning inspector.

The developers outlined their plans for the full application which they said is due to be submitted "sometime in the next few weeks.”

There was lengthy discussion around the road changes that will accompany the homes, including the new Pitt Manor access off Romsey Road and the soon to be re-designed junction with Stanmore Lane.

Mr Brine said: “The Pitt Manor development is going to happen because it was granted outline permission by the Inspector and whatever our view of that decision, we have to make the best of it.

"The full 'Reserved Matters' planning application is the next step and it’s important we have the maximum community involvement so we get the detail, such as the road changes, absolutely right. I hope this meeting was a useful part of that process, especially for those attending from St Peter’s.

“It was good also to see some watercolour sketches of what the Pitt Manor development will look like and I have to say, based on what I saw, it does look like it will be designed to a very high standard.”

Also attending the meeting were Jenny Robinson and Claire-Louise Noonan, St Peter’s School; Andy Hickman and Lorna Hutchings, city council; Steve Jenkins, county council; Cllrs Martin Tod and Jamie Scott; Sandie Vining, local resident; Mark Sennett and Terry Tedder, Orchard Homes (Pitt Manor) Ltd; Mark Smith, Paul Basham Associates (transport consultants); and Simon Packer, Turley Associates (planning/design consultants).