DETAILED plans for a 1,500-home estate in Wantage are expected to be released in the next six months.

Vale of White Horse District Council planning officer Stuart Walker said he is expecting a detailed planning application for the 92-hectare Crab Hill site in Charlton to be submitted this summer.

It comes more than two years after London group Lands Improvement Holdings won outline planning permission to build the estate on behalf of the landowners.

The "housing promoter" was granted permission for the principle of the scheme in February 2014, but has since been trying to sell the site to a housing developer.

The site, which stretches for 227 acres around the Charlton Heights estate, was expected to fetch more than £50m.

The consortium of landowners, predominantly made up of two farming families, are marketing their fields through two agents – Kemp and Kemp, and Carter Jonas.

Whatever developer eventually buys the land to build homes there will still need permission for the detailed design.

Carter Jonas said in a statement this week: "We have received a number of bids and are in negotiations with interested parties and working with the local planning authority to map out the next steps required to deliver the development."