Developers are set to submit a planning application this summer for 260 homes to the north of a rural village.

Trenport Investments aims to build on nearly 75 acres of land at Frognal Lane, between Sittingbourne and Faversham.

The company, which owns more than 50 acres of the site, also wants to build employment space and sports pitches and create a new access road to the A2.

The 20 acres of rural employment land will include offices, research and development accommodation and space for light industrial use.

In a statement sent to Swale council for its environmental impact assessment, the company said this “would not contain large metal clad ‘sheds’ such as those found on a number of industrial estates in Sittingbourne and elsewhere”.

The proposals are likely to be given the go-ahead as they sit on land earmarked for housing and employment in the council’s draft Local Plan.

An outline planning application should be submitted by the end of August, which will supercede previous proposals by the developers for the area.

Trenport counts among its directors Aidan Barclay, son of billionaire tycoon Sir David and nephew of Sir Frederick, co-owners of the Telegraph Group.

The company is also behind the £50 million Peters Village development at Wouldham, near Rochester, and the construction of a new bridge over the River Medway due to open at the end of the summer.

It has been promoting the development of Frognal Lane for more than a decade.

Its previous landowners, Blue Circle Cement and Saxon Developments Limited, had also undertaken various consultations on building homes at the site, going back to the early 1990s.

Documents sent to Swale council by Trenport said it envisages the housing “would be designed to reflect the Kentish vernacular style, rather than the suburban style of recent developments in the village, which are not locally distinctive”.

The company also said it would “assist with funding improvements” to Teynham’s village centre “to manage traffic, and improve its appearance and the environment for pedestrians”.

It aims to build the 260 houses on about 18 acres, a development of about 20 acres for rural employment, 14 acres of open space and about seven and a half acres of sports pitches.