Plans to seal final details for more than 100 homes near Church Gresley have been submitted.

The overall plans, from Seven Homes, would see 306 houses built off Church Street between St George's Primary School and Gresley Woods.

South Derbyshire District Council approved the outline plans for the site in 2015 but now a detailed plan must be signed off.

An application to sign off on the first 153 homes has now been submitted to the council.

Last year, St Modwen Developments and Beepart Ltd, the firm's behind the initial application, said that they could not provide a single affordable home in the scheme because it would be too expensive.

The developers were supposed to provide 46 affordable homes but instead agreed to give the council half a million pounds to build 12 affordable homes elsewhere.

At the time, it said it intended to buy 12 of the 28 homes to be built in the grounds of Gresley Old Hall.

The council said that it was important to get houses built in the district to avoid "speculative development" on sites where it did not want them.

Seven Homes' application will be decided by the district council in the next few months.

A statement written by Planning Prospects, on behalf of the developer, says: "The application proposals provide for a high quality residential development which accords with the principles for the development of the site established in its outline planning permission.

"It includes a range of new homes, together with appropriate highway and drainage infrastructure, along with an area of new open space."

The firm says the development will "positively contribute to the local area and deliver much-needed new housing".

It says "delivery of the development has been delayed for a number of years whilst viability challenges associated with ground conditions were addressed".

Access to the site would stem off Rockcliffe Close to the east.

Each house appears to have two allocated parking spaces.

As part of the overall scheme, the developer will pay £1.8million for expansion plans at the St George's Primary School and at Pingle School, along with half a million pounds for a new community facility at Gresley Football Club.

Part of the site itself, around the existing football field, would be used for the expansion of the primary school.

Debating the removal of the affordable homes last year, Tony Sylvester, the authority's planning services manager, had said: "While it is very concerning to be out of the 15 per cent affordable housing from 2015, it is important that we consider this a better deal than we are reasonably entitled to.

"We need these houses to be built, and sustainably, to make sure we don't get hit by speculative development.

"We have a really good deal here."

Cllr Lisa Brown had said: "Our hands have been tied on this. It has been a very difficult and tough negotiation."

Meanwhile, Cllr Trevor Southerd had said: "It is with some reluctance that this committee gave the go-ahead for this development on a well-known site in Church Gresley.

"I have never thought that it should have gone ahead but it is now finally under way for all the right reasons."