Three terraced houses to the rear of the former New Inn at Easton, Portland are expected to be approved by local planners this week.

The application is being considered at the Weymouth and Portland planning committee tomorrow (March 27) which will follow on from a site visit.

Planning officers are recommending approval of the scheme for the three-bed homes, each with a grassed rear garden, and eight shared parking spaces between the rear of the New Inn, which is now a guest house, and the front of the new homes. The area was once the pub garden.

Six letters of objection have been received claiming that the scheme is too big for the site, that it amounts to backland development, that the island already has enough housing and that there will be overlooking of the garden of 29 Easton Street.

But planning officers say in their report to the committee that the proposed homes would fit in with the area, meet planning guidelines and would be difficult to reject given that the area has not reached the government target of having a five-year supply of housing land.