MORE houses, including affordable homes, are set to be built in Buckskin.

Basingstoke and Deane Borough councillors approved an application to build 30 new homes on land off Wiltshire Crescent at a meeting on Wednesday last week.

The application, submitted by Affinity Sutton The Manydown Company comprises of 21 houses and 12 flats as well as parking; and refuse and cycle store facilities.

Member of Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council’s Development Control Committee opted to approve the plans despite objections from ward councillors.

Cllr Tony Jones, who had previously objected to the plans said he knew the application would have been approved but he would have liked something different.

Cllr Jones said: “The issue we had was about the levelling of the site and lack of amenity space for the proposed flats [and] poor location of parking.

“The parking isn’t due to the application, as it is just terrible around the area.”

Cllr Jones added: “Of course with the need for housing one we welcome [this] and the major positive of this application is that it meets the 40 per cent affordable housing policy we want.”

The site will hold 10 two-bedroom houses, 11 three-bedroom houses, four one-bed flats and eight two-bed flats.

Currently the site is open grassland enclosed by various boundary fences, which is in the north-west of the area adjacent to where the Manydown project is set to be built.