Ambitious plans for Dudley’s dilapidated North Priory estate are to be unveiled to the public for the first time tomorrow.

They include creating a pioneering traffic system free of road signs giving pedestrians right of way modelled on similar systems in Holland. The Express & Star was today given a first glimpse of what the estate may look like in an artist’s impression. Bulldozers are currently demolishing existing homes to make way for a development which may be approved by October.

Developers Bromford Group, in partnership with Dudley Council, present plans at Priory Primary School tomorrow and Saturday. They detail how they hope to build 314 properties including two bedroom apartments or bungalows and a mix of two, three and four bedroom houses.

One, two and three storey homes are proposed, as is a dedicated ‘homezone’ area.

The homezone concept was pioneered in Holland in the 1970s and gives pedestrians priority access to landscaped roads but maintains vehicle access with reduced speed limits.

Visitors who attend the open event will be asked to fill out a questionnaire giving their thoughts on how the lettings process should work on the new estate.

Plans will be on display at the Neighbourhood Learning Centre, Priory Primary School, Limes Road, 1.30pm -5.30pm tomorrow, and on Saturday from noon-2pm at the school’s summer fair.

Dudley Council cabinet member for housing, councillor David Simms, said: “In 2006, the council identified North Priory as a key area for redevelopment. After three years of in-depth consultation with the local community, the relocation of more than 270 households from the estate and extensive investigations we are now at a stage where the new North Priory can start to take shape.”

Bromford Group head of development, Jean Teichmann, said they and the council were committed to a modern and sustainable community with a variety of property types to suit needs of future residents.

“We hope North Priory will become a community where people will want to stay for generations to come.”

Plans are expected to go before Dudley Council’s development and control committee in October.