DETAILED plans for a 270-home development in Littlemore are to go on display for the first time.

Catalyst Housing wants to develop the site in Armstrong Road and will give people the opportunity to view its proposals.

A public exhibition for the plans, on a site formerly owned by Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, will run on Monday from 5pm to 7.30pm and on Saturday, January 21, from 11am to 2pm. at Littlemore Village Hall in Railway Lane.

Oxford City Council granted outline planning permission for the site in April 2015 – meaning the general principle of building on the site was agreed but not the detailed plans.

Catalyst Housing will take feedback from the public on their detailed proposals before submitting a planning application to the city council.

Some controversy has surrounded the project – which was initially denied planning permission after councillors raised concerns about transport links in the area,

There were also worries about unmarked graves on the site, which contain the bodies of patients who died in the 19th century at the former mental hospital in Littlemore.

Those fears were allayed when the hospital trust made it clear there were no plans for homes to be put on the parts of the site where bodies were buried.

Littlemore parish councillor David Henwood has since spoken to both the trust and Catalyst about including a memorial to those buried there in the final development.

If the project goes ahead there would be 104 houses and 166 flats, half of which would be affordable homes.