A proposed residential link road "will benefit" Oswestry residents, according to highways officials.

Developers J Ross - the team behind a new 600-home estate off Shrewsbury Road - have been working alongside Jennings Estates Ltd who want to build 150 homes off Middleton Lane.

And in doing so they are proposing a new road which will link the two and aims to take some traffic pressures off Middleton Lane and the junctions coming off it once the homes are built.

The link road has now received the backing of Mark Wootton, from Shropshire Council's Developing Highways, who gave his support of the 600-home development last week.

He said: "In conclusion, therefore, the application submission essentially meets the aspirations in delivering the Oswestry SUE (sustainable urban extension) allocation as approved by the council in its adoption of SAMDev.

"The highway authority considers also that the deliver of the link road between Middleton Road and Shrewsbury Road forms an important link within the local highway network, which will benefit Oswestry residents."

Mr Wootton also said: "It is understood that the deliver of the internal strategic link road between Shropshire Road and Middleton Road will be considered via reserved matters applications coming forward, which will include the phasing of the housing delivery across the site. These will therefore include the detail of the design and layout of the spine road as the housing stock develops out.

"Planning conditions are required at this outline stage to set out the reserved matters requirements for phasing of the link road in order to provide the opening of the link as soon as is viable and practical."