The first phase of the 4,000-home West Winch growth project has been marred by months of delays with work yet to start despite councillors approving it last August.

Hopkins Homes has had to ask for repeated deadline extensions to resolve issues related to Section 106 agreements - the amount of cash it will provide for infrastructure to support the new homes.

A council graphic showing the area earmarked for 4,000 homes and proposed new road at West Winch, south of King's Lynn (Image: West Norfolk Council)

It has until next Friday to resolve these issues, but it has yet to finalise legal agreements with all of the landowners for the first 1,100 properties to be built.

But minutes from a council meeting held in private earlier this month revealed one individual remains reluctant to sell.

The turmoil has led some farmers involved in the collaboration agreement - a collection of landowners selling land for the project to go ahead - to complain about the........

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