It will be make or break for Quinn Estates when its plans for housing and new sporting facilities across 700 acres go before councillors this week.

The developer has already had an application turned down for the former Herne Bay Golf Club.

The plans include 572 homes, commercial office space and football, hockey and cricket pitches.

It has revised the application and resubmitted it, which managing director Mark Quinn hopes will be approved at a Canterbury City Council planning meeting tomorrow.

The scheme has received 1,200 letters of support – albeit the vast majority using a template created by Quinn Estates – and just four objections.

Mr Quinn said: “What we’re giving away – the sports pitches and changing rooms – is worth £20 million.

“I want a common-sense approach. We want to be allowed to develop houses in an area which desperately needs them.

“People need to take a more positive approach to development. They need to realise unless land is released to be used for housing, their children will have nowhere to live. You cannot take the attitude ‘not on my patch’.”

Mr Quinn says he is in talks with three companies looking to move into the 45,000sq ft of commercial space, about the same size as Estuary View business park in Whitstable.

It will create 1,000 jobs although Mr Quinn estimates it will can create up to 5,000.

If it fails, the company has appealed the original rejected planning application, which has a hearing due for November 4.

If that is also turned down then the scheme will go back to the drawing board, wasting more than £1 million Quinn Estates has spent on planning, consultations and maintaining the land, which it has owned for four years.

Mr Quinn said: “We budgeted nowhere near that.

“We can’t continue to take cost and not put into action what we are offering.”