DEVELOPERS have made a renewed bid to build homes on a site in Tiptree following previous refusals.

Plans have been submitted for the redevelopment of a site with nine homes in Highlands, on Kelvedon Road.

The land next to Highlands is currently used commercially by suppliers of building and roofing materials.

The application includes the change of use of the site from commercial to residential.

The plan is to transform the nearly three-acre site into a small development consisting of two three-bedroom homes, five four-bedroom homes and two five-bedroom homes.

All of the proposed homes will be sold as market houses and there will be no affordable housing.

The development would have a total of 27 parking spaces.

The existing access point to the site, off Kelvedon Road, will be retained and a new access road will run through the centre.

Previous plans for a housing development on the site have been refused due to it being outside the settlement boundary of Tiptree, but this has now changed following the adoption of the Neighbourhood Plan.

Former plans to demolish an existing bungalow were approved in April 2017 but have now expired.

Colchester Council will have the final say on the plans.