Plans for a new mid Suffolk care village have been recommended for refusal by council planners. 

An outline planning application by Christchurch Land & Estates (Elmswell South) Ltd to Mid Suffolk District Council has proposed the creation of a care village made up of 66-bedroom care home, 37 extra care bungalows and three almshouses on land north and west of School Road, Elmswell. 

The plans, submitted at the end of last year, also include a management office, club house, community growing area, orchard, bee hives and open space. 

An officer report, which will go before the council's planning committee next week, states the proposals have been met with 40 letters, emails and online comments of objection, with no neutral or supporting comments being submitted.

Objections cite, amongst many other concerns, a loss of countryside, an increased flood risk, increased pressure on the School Road/Church Road junction, and a lack of facilities including health centres and GPs in Elmswell. 

Elmswell Parish Council also "strongly urged" for the plans to be refused, saying the junction is "at capacity" and the GP surgery that serves the village is in Woolpit and is already "under stress". 

The officer report recommended that members of the planning committee resolve to refuse planning permission. 

They said this was based on the location, that the site is located outside of the established settlement boundary for Elmswell, and flood risk, that the site is "vulnerable to surface water flood" which goes against their policies. 

They also cited heritage issues, that the development would affect nearby Grade II* and Grade II listed buildings, and landscape fears, that the development would have a "harmful impact" on the landscape approaching Elmswell from the A14 and Woolpit. 

They also felt there was "insufficient Highways information" and highlighted that no Section 106 Agreement, which takes place between a developer and a local planning authority and concerns measures the developer must take to reduce their impact, had been made. 

The plans, recommended for refusal, will go before the planning committee on Wednesday, August 28.