A FRESH set of proposals have been put forward to build an additional 24 homes as the final part of a major development scheme in Ringwood.

Applicants Linden Homes is seeking permission to use “surplus land” on the Crow Arch Lane site.

If approved, this would take the overall number of homes on the Beaumont Park development to 199.

The proposals set out building 12 open-market properties – four four-bed and eight three-bed houses – and 12 affordable units – six one-bed flats, four-two bed houses and two-three bed houses.

A statement submitted by Terrence O’Rourke on behalf of Linden Homes said: “The proposal has been carefully considered and will provide a high-quality development reflecting the applicant’s desire to create an attractive development, of a design that responds positively to the character of the wider site and local context.”

The latest scheme from Linden Homes would take the development beyond the threshold set when the development first came before planners more than four years ago.

Initial outline planning permission was granted for up to 175 homes on the overall site in October 2014.

Subsequent detailed applications for 62 dwellings in phase one and 113 dwellings in phase two, as well as a third phase for businesses units and a care home have all been approved by New Forest District Council planners.

Members of Ringwood Town Council’s planning committee are due to meet tomorrow to discuss the new proposal and give their response to the district council.

Residents hit out at the development last year over its lack of “genuinely affordable housing”.

Cllr Philip Day said there was a desire for “cheap houses that people can afford to buy”.