Plans to build 360 new houses on land north of Hugglescote are set to get the go-ahead next week.

The homes adjoin other new-builds in the area on Grange Road and will extend out to Newbridge High School in Coalville.

And it will include 'the addition of second item of public art' which will be a mining wheel.

The Headstocks pulley wheel was transported from Snibston Colliery to the Grange Road site in August and will be stored onsite with the aim of putting it in place this year.

The plans will be discussed at next week's meeting of North West Leicestershire District Council's planning committee which takes place on Wednesday, January 13.

The agenda states that: "This is an application to "vary" conditions attached to an earlier reserved matters approval for the erection of 360 dwellings and associated development, forming part of the wider South East Coalville development.

"The proposed development is considered to represent an appropriate form of development in accordance with the outline planning permission, and would continue to provide for an acceptable standard of design to meet the Local Planning Authority's design objectives."

What else do I need to know?

This is the story we published in August about the new street names in Hugglescote.

Street names on Hugglescote housing estate named after victims of 1898 Whitwick colliery disaster