MORE misery is on the cards for long-suffering residents after a golf club applied for a 21-month extension to dump material for a new course.

Wyre Forest Golf Club started depositing soil and rubble to build the nine-hole course next to the Burlish Top Nature Reserve off Kingsway in Stourport three years ago but has still not finished. Mick Grinnall surrounded by rubble still being dumped to create a new golf course.

In March 2002 Wyre Forest district councillors gave the club a "last chance" to finish dumping by June this year but so far only about two-thirds of the 123,000 cubic metres of waste has been dumped on the formerly undulating grassland.

Stourport town councillors have urged their district colleagues to turn down the latest application - to be considered in September at the earliest - which would see dumping carry on until March 2005 with the course completed three months later.

Town councillor Mick Grinnall said the heavy lorries continuing to use the narrow approach road was a "finger up" to nearby residents.

"People are concerned - that road has no footpath and vehicles pass a high school, a day centre and a sports centre," he said.

"My prime concern now is enough's enough."

Mr Grinnall argued the course should be constructed with the material already deposited.

A Calder Road resident, who did not want to be named, said: "Every day the lorries go into the tip. Some mornings they queue on the bend.

"It is disturbing. One lady lost her balance and fell into the hedge. Another lady - who had hip replacements - ended up on the ground and couldn't get up until somebody helped her."

Fellow town councillor Don Giles, who compared the site's appearance to "Baghdad after the Yanks invaded", claimed contractors had been dumping toxic material such as chunks of tarmac outside the designated area and working later than the cut-off time of 3.30pm.

He added Elan Avenue residents had already seen flooding at the back of their homes since the work started and claimed the continued compacting of soil by dumper trucks would cause further problems.

In a letter to the district council the club put the delay down to "the scarcity of material due to the slowdown in building, excavation and groundwork projects in the area".

No-one from the club was available to comment further.