Burley Farm Estate Partnership is behind the proposals for land in Brooke Road Oakham the original plans were rejected, because of concerns over railway noise.
Local residents had also campaigned against the development, raising traffic issues.
Rutland County Council's planning committee voted through the application for the 4.8-acre site at a meeting on Tuesday 11 February 2020, 40 homes on a former allotments site in Oakham, Rutland.
Yesterday Rutland County Councils Cabinet members approved a grant of £650,000 for affordable housing to the Platform Housing Group for the development on the former allotments at Brooke Road, Oakham subject to planning