PARISH councillors have been summoned to a special meeting to discuss latest plans for a new housing estate.

Grove Parish Council will hold its one-off session on Tuesday night to discuss the planning application for 394 homes on the area known as Monks Farm north of the village.

The first application, for 456 homes, was submitted in April 2016 and was due to be decided in June 2017, but was delayed by concerns.

Now the developer has submitted a new version of the application reducing the number of homes from 456 to 394.

The Wantage and Grove Campaign Group for sustainable development (WAGCG) welcomed the new application, saying: “The revised proposal... should provide a link road to the Denchworth Road until the Grove Airfield Road to the West of the cemetery is built; it will provide a northern access with parking for staff and parents to Grove CE Primary School and more green space near the brook and between the by-way and the railway.

“Our only comment so far is that the school parking might be more useful if the access provided a drop-off zone on a one-way access as well as parking spaces.”

Members of public can see the new plans online at whitehorsedc.gov.uk using reference number P16/V0981/O.

Vale of White Horse District Council will make the final decision in due course.

In the meantime, residents are welcome to sit it on the parish council session at Old Mill Hall on Tuesday from 7pm, where councillors will decide whether to make any official objections to the new scheme.