A CONTROVERSIAL planning application for houses in the village of Weir is set to be approved -- despite 34 letters of objection.

Councillors at the engineering and planning committee on Monday are being advised to approve a revised scheme.

The proposed development at Irwell Springs is for 42 large homes and originally the developer planned to fill in one of three lodges on the site.

The council deferred making a decision so the developer could look again at plans for the reservoirs, which councillors felt should be left as they are, and find a new access route to the site.

But in the applicant's revised submission he is still planning to alter all three lodges and on his is recommended "extensive filling" to make it into a shallow water body or wetland.

The applicant has not been able to identify alternative access to the site and is now proposing road humps on Heald Lane.

The letters of objection cite the proposed transfer and fill from the housing site into the reservoirs causing pollution, the need for a bond or guarantee and traffic calming not tackling the problem of congestion.

A report to the meeting says: "The representations received from the public,, however, highlight congestion concerns that would not be relieved by a scheme of road humps.

"If members judge that such calming should proceed, then this could be the subject of an additional planning condition."