Plans for the 600 homes that will complete Didcot's Ladygrove estate have been unveiled.

Ladygrove East will lie to the north of the A4130, between the existing estate and the Hadden Hill Golf Club.

Once complete, the estate will transform the eastern edge of the town, provide new leisure facilities and schools and ensure the completion of the Northern Perimeter Road.

Developers will also have to provide funding towards infrastructure improvements, including the multi-million pound expansion of Didcot Wave Leisure Pool.

The outline plan, a framework that will govern the design, structure and general layout of the estate, is set to be decided by South Oxfordshire District Council's planning committee next month.

If it is approved, parcels of the 30-acre site will be sold for development, with each requiring separate detailed planning applications that will have to abide by the approved design framework.

Landowners Dare Warwick Properties have revealed a broad strategy mapping out the proposed development.

The site is likely to comprise around 642 homes along with a new primary school, community building and a six-acre park.

The development will also be split into three 'character areas'.

An 'urban street' will run through the centre of the site from north to south.

It will consist of mainly two to three storey terraced housing and flats at a higher density and will provide the main transport link to the estate.

To the east of the central street, houses will be built to an 'urban grid' design, that developers say has been based on existing housing layouts in areas such as Northbourne, with a mix of housing types at a medium density.

To the west will be lower density detached and semi-detached homes.

The plans state that around 40 per cent of the homes will be affordable housing, in line with SODC's guidelines, including around 100 homes for shared ownership.

A six-acre recreation park is planned at the south east edge of the development.

Developers estimate it will take four to six years to complete the estate, which will be built in four phases.

Planners are likely to demand that improvements, like the Northern Perimeter Road and the parkland area, are completed during the first phase of building.

Didcot county councillor Terry Joslin said he was happy the Ladygrove estate would finally be finished.

He added: "It is very sad that it has taken this long. It has cost everybody more, in terms of incomplete infrastructure, but the developer nothing.

"The Abingdon Road, which is now a residential road, is at the moment used as a through road for HGVs. At last we will be able to complete the Northern Perimeter Road."