The last link to a former golf course near Ashby can be bulldozed to allow even more homes to be built.

Parts of the Breedon Priory Golf Club, in Breedon on the Hill, have already been concreted over for housing since the club's closure in January 2023.

While much of the course has now been returned to agricultural land, 52 new homes have been constructed on what remains of the club's adjoining nurseries in Ashby Road through two separate schemes.

Now, North West Leicestershire District Council (NWLDC) has granted permission for a new development by the same applicant which will see an additional six homes built there.

To make way for the housing, the green golf club implement store will need to be demolished. The store is the last remaining link with the former club, but developer Cameron Homes branded it "unattractive".

The six homes will be erected in two rows with access off the existing roads in the redeveloped area. They will be made up of a mix of two, three and four-bedroomed houses. All will come with two parking spaces, while two of the houses would have garages too.

The plan faced some objection from villagers, with one saying they would bring no "benefit to the village" and that they would actually be "detrimental to the environmental quality" of the Breedon on the Hill itself.

Several claimed amenities in Breedon were already limited and resources could be stretched even further. Increased noise and light pollution problems were raised too, with some fearing the six new homes would "only increase this issue".

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However, planning officers at NWLDC disagreed, saying they did not believe the plans would have "any significantly detrimental impacts" for the local area. They added there were "no material planning considerations that indicate planning permission should not be granted" and the proposal is "considered acceptable".