A PLANNING application has been lodged for the first concrete step in the Pennyfeathers plan.

Pennyfeathers off Smallbrook Lane at Ashey, already has outline permission for 904 homes, a school, community centre and commercial buildings and re-location of Westridge Garage to enable a new road layout.

The latest application details exactly where the replacement garage would be built and states that contractural arrangements with landowners require that to take place "as soon as possible."

The developer says permission would enable the garage to have modern facilities and allow a new road layout to be put in place to improve the Westridge junction.

The new garage site is proposed to be accessed off Brading Road, midway between the existing garage and the Busy Bee Garden Centre with the two main accesses moved further south away from Cothey Way, opposite, on the advice of highways engineers.

The original Pennyfeathers application generated hundreds of objections from individuals and organisations.

People have until December 8 to comment on the garage application.