Medical officials have criticised plans to build hundreds of new homes north of Monifieth.
Area doctors fear GPs will be “unable to cope” with an influx of new residents from the major housing development.
Dr Andrew Thomson, secretary on the Tayside Local Medical Committee, said architects at building firm Barratt had failed to account for how the development would affect healthcare.
He said: “These developments will fall solely within the practice boundaries of Monifieth Health Centre, and they are already under severe strain from workload pressures.”
Dr Andrew Buist, who chairs the Scottish General Practitioners Committee, said the addition of 300 new families in Monifieth could even force the town’s doctors to turn away sick patients.
He said: “The primary care facility in Monifieth has already reached saturation point and with this influx of new patients, there is a very real possibility that the practice will have to stop taking on new patients.”
Monifieth resident Lorna Donachie agreed, saying: “The doctors’ surgery is at more than full capacity at present, appointments being extremely hard to come by.
“With all these proposed developments, surely further doctors’ surgeries will be required as the current one most certainly will not cope.”
She added: Monifieth is one of those areas in Scotland that has seen major population growth in recent years.
“If this development goes ahead, the town will either need a major expansion on to its current primary care facility, or an additional facility will need to be built to accommodate this new development.”
Eric Blyth, manager of Monifieth Health Centre, said: “Our staff are already working at full capacity every single day. If these houses are built, there will be no overlap between practices to share that burden.
“We will have sole responsibility for those new patients, and it will push this practice far beyond its breaking point.”
A spokesman for Ryden property consultants said developers would consider providing “contributions towards the provision of essential services, such as education and healthcare and mitigate any impacts that an increased population may have.”
Angus Council will make its decision on the project by the start of August.
Dundee City Council has objected to Taylor Wimpey’s plans to build 380 houses at the Grange north of Monifieth, next to the Barratt site, for the project’s impact on its Western Gateway development.
The city council also considers the new Monifieth housing would be in conflict with strategic development policies.
Fears have been expressed that the high number of children from the new homes would overload schools.