Plans for nearly 50 new homes in Bildeston have been recommended for approval.
The scheme is set to be discussed by the Babergh Planning Committee next week (Wednesday, November 30).
After gaining planning outline permission in 2017, the land was put up for sale in August 2020.
The 7.24-acre site is part of land to the east of Artiss Close.
Planning documents indicate that the scheme would be made up of three five-bed houses, eight four-bed houses, 12 three-bed houses, four two-bed houses and four two-bed bungalows, as well as 17 affordable homes.
The planning officers' report for the project says the scheme "would sit comfortably with the immediate surroundings of the site, which are modern estate developments".
However, Bildeston councillor Robert Lindsay said: "This development should not have been approved at the outline stage without a proper direct, surfaced footpath connection to the centre of the village, where there are shops, GP surgery and a school.
"It could have been possible to liaise with a landowner for an access strip that would allow that.
"Objections by me and the parish council were made about this at the initial outline application stage but were ignored.
"The developer will have to build a stretch of pavement from the entrance to the site towards the village but that still means that residents of this new estate will be forced to walk around three sides of a large square rather than directly into the village.
"What is likely to happen is residents will either ignore the services in the village or choose to drive into the centre and park in the marketplace, competing with other cars trying to park in a public space that was never intended to be a car park.
"Although the developer has now agreed to use some traditional materials, the quality of the design of the houses is low and not up to the standards indicated in the developer's initial outline application.
"What we will now have is a separate, inward-looking estate, one that encourages car use and ignores the existence of the village to which it has been opportunistically attached.
"This is a recipe for making it difficult for new residents to get to their fellow villagers."
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