A PUBLIC consultation to hear proposals for a residential development in Okehampton will take place on Tuesday (June 28).

Paul Hunt Developments Ltd is hosting a drop in consultation at the Ockment Centre between 4pm and 8pm to showcase a scheme for a residential devel-opment on land between Fatherford Road and Moorcroft before it submits a formal planning application.

Although it is not known exactly what this proposal involves, the developers show-cased a scheme to create a new primary school, supermarket, 60 houses and a park and ride service at the same site at a public consultation event in 2013 — after making slight changes to a scheme showcased 12 months before that.

The 2013 scheme offered a six-acre site for a 420-pupil school with an 82-metre by 49-metre sports pitch on land to the south of Exeter Road. A development of 60 houses was proposed to go next to the new school and the plan involved a 30,000 square foot supermarket and a site for ‘glamour camping’ with yurts and wigwams.

Town and parish councillors criticised the plans that were shown in the 2013 public consultation, saying that Okehampton would be adequately supplied for housing over the coming years with plans that had already been agreed and there were concerns about having a camp site in close proximity to a primary school.

In an invitation letter sent out by Paul Hunt Developments Ltd, Paul Hunt said: ‘Following many months of discussions with the planning department, we are about to submit our application for residential development on this site.

‘We are holding a drop in public consultation between 4pm and 8pm on June 28 and would welcome you to attend at any time that afternoon/evening.’

A spokesperson for West Devon Borough Council said: ‘Initial discussion between the council and the landowner has identified key issues that would need to be addressed should an application for planning permission be submitted. This includes highway safety, landscape and provision of affordable housing.

‘We are aware that the landowner will shortly be holding a public consultation event when local people will have an opportunity to consider and comment on the proposals.’

The consultation event will be held in the Links Room of the Ockment Community Centre in North Road, Okehampton.