A follow-up planning application has been submitted covering further details in need of approval for a 135-home estate, following the successful appeal of an initial refusal.

If approved by Rutland County Council, the application would progress plans to build 135 new homes on a piece of land south-east of Brooke Road in Oakham.

The latest application seeks permission for a raft of details concerning the design, layout, landscaping and scale of the houses themselves. The 135-strong estate would comprise a mix of one, two, three, four and five-bedroom homes, 40 of which would be affordable.

According to the application submitted by Taylor Wimpey in partnership with husband and wife developers Robert Lionel Eayrs and Margaret Suzanne Eayrs, a "cohesive design concept" would be employed across the site, with varying features and materials to "add interest and variety to the street scene".

The houses themselves would be built from a variety of brick shades while the roof tiles would include a mix of slate grey and peat brown colours.

An outline application for the estate was rejected by the council last year, after concerns were raised regarding its proximity to one of several level crossings in Oakham, and the resulting road safety hazards.

The refusal letter outlined the council's view that the application's transport assessment did not "accurately reflect the traffic impacts of the proposal on the area", adding that its survey was taken while the roads in question were signposted as closed.

Given waiting times at level crossings in the town are expected to rise from 25 minutes to 40 minutes in the hour as rail freight through the town increases, the impact of the estate on the area's roads was deemed to be "severe".

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However, that rejection was successfully appealed after an inspector found "no substantive evidence of any resulting highway safety impacts", highlighting provisions in the application, such as widening Brooke Road to accommodate on street parking, as sufficient to ease traffic flow.

The inspector said: "Overall, whilst the development would add to existing delays and queues in the area associated with the level crossing, I am satisfied that this would not result in an unacceptable impact on highway safety nor would the residual cumulative impacts on the road network, following mitigation, be severe."