MORE than 20 homes are being planned for a Weymouth harbourside site formerly occupied by a power company.

A planning application has been lodged with Dorset Council for the former Southern Electric depot off Westwey Road.

It asks for consent for the demolition of the former switchgear building and the construction of 23 homes and 50 parking spaces on the site of just under an acre.

The site was last used as a depot by the power company in 1996.

A previous application for a similar number of houses on the site was withdrawn in 2015 after concerns by the Health and Safety Executive at a time when the gas holders were still on the site, although not in use. These have since been removed.

The new application claims that comments about the design made at that time have been taken into account in the new scheme.

The applications, from Landmark Estates of Ringwood, proposes 16 open market three-bed homes with the rest of the site a mix of one and two bed flats for affordable use.

Access to the site is being proposed off Westway Road, Granville and Stavordale Roads, with a ‘landmark’ terrace of houses at the front of the site facing onto the marina, with a second layer of housing toward the rear of the site and a ‘gateway’ block of apartments on the opposite side of the Westway Road entrance road, adjacent to the terraced homes.

A decision on the application is proposed to be made at officer level rather than by a committee of councillors.

Comments on the application can be submitted to Dorset Council by December 20th.