VILLAGERS are today invited to examine plans for 80 homes in their community.
Three landowners are clubbing together for the joint application to develop land next to the A164 in Leconfield.
As well as the homes, the proposal is to knock down and replace the existing post office as well as build another shop, the occupier for which has not been confirmed.
An exhibition being staged at Leconfield Village Hall today will show residents what is planned for land behind the post office, on the left of the main road as drivers enter from Beverley.
Michael Powell from planning consultant Pegasus Group, working for the applicants, said: "The landowners are working together to bring this forward.
"The consultation will be a one-off, drop-in session. We are looking at early May for the application.
"We have spoken to the people who run the post office and it will be retained in the village."
Post office owner Margaret Archer said: "The land at the back has been designated for development for years.
"The post office will be a new one on the same site, they're knocking this old building down and building a new one."
Mrs Archer was particularly pleased the plan includes another, separate, shop, as well as the post office.
She said: "People in the village are all missing the shop after it closed down last August.
"Villages need their post offices and their shops.
"Personally, I think the development will bring new blood into the village. The more people there are in the village, obviously, the more there will be to use the post office and the shop."
Mrs Archer explained that non-military people cannot use the facilities on the Defence School of Transport base, which dominates the village.
When the village shop closed, it meant people had to go into Beverley even for small grocery items.
After some tentative positive reaction, Mr Powell says Pegasus Group is keen to welcome people to the consultation today.
He said: "It is only an outline application and we haven't spoken to anyone about it yet, this will be the first chance.
"There will be an affordable housing element but we don't know how much yet.
"The land is designated in the local plan for housing development."
Towns and villages across the East Riding are debating the East Riding Council Draft Local Plan.
Aimed at meeting house building targets, in many cases the plan has identified development land on previous greenfield sites.
That is not the case with the Leconfield development. The land has long been flagged for housing.
But East Riding councillors will have to determines any eventual application, including any conditions about community benefits.
