Plans for a 95 home development in Abbots Langley have given councillors "cause for concern".

The proposed development to be built in land off Woodside Road by housing developers Taylor Wimpey was put in front of Three Rivers District Council’s planning committee for the first time last Thursday.

The pre-application document for the plans was put forward by Taylor Wimpey in September last year which immediately sparked outrage among residents living in the area.

A formal application was then submitted to the council last month.

At the meeting cases were heard for and against the development and the committee then voiced their views on the plans.

Councillor Ann Shaw OBE, a member of the planning committee, said: "Looking at the plan I feel concerned about the access to the school. Unless the school is going to be very different from every other local primary school in the district there will be queues of parents in cars delivering children.

"They’re going to be backing up either into residential road causing chaos for the residents who live there, or onto Woodside Road, or into the school site, which seems a bit unlikely.

It may be that I’m misunderstanding the plans, but I can’t see parking space which would accommodate the sort of numbers that schools will require.

"Also, I’m a bit uneasy about the play area being on the side of the road. It doesn’t seem at all a desirable or sensible place to me."

Councillor Stephen Giles-Medhurst, chairman of Abbots Langley Parish Council, who was present at the meeting, also highlighted problems with the plans, including potential flooding issues and inadequate pedestrian crossings and footways.

Speaking for the development, Neil Osborn, senior director of DLP Planning Ltd, said: "We’ve been happy to listen to constructive suggestions and criticisms of the consultees, and the application before you was shaped by the results of our public exhibition held in October 2014 and consideration of the responses we’ve had from officers.

"As a result, this scheme has actually been reduced in scale. We illustrated 123 homes at the exhibition and we’re now down to 95 which we agreed was more appropriate to the site."

A decision was made by chairman of the planning committee, Councillor Chris Whately-Smith at the end of the discussion for a site visit to follow.

He said: "There are many points that need to be followed up which give cause for concern."

The site visit will take place on August 8.