PLANS for a new complex of farm buildings off Guarlford Road have been lodged with Malvern Hills District Council.

Farmer John Bullock has submitted one application for storage buildings, grain store and cattle buildings and another for a new farmhouse.

The plot is between Guarlford Road and the sewage works.

Mr Bullock also has plans for the conversion of the existing farm buildings at Mill Farm going through the planning system. These buildings are almost totally surrounded by housing, which has been built over the past 20 years.

At its most recent meeting, MHDC's southern area planning committee deferred making a decision on these plans.

But they decided to allow listed building consent, although planning officer David Murray said the applicant would not be able to start work until full planning permission was granted.

Earlier this year, a plan by Mr Bullock for two barns at a site further east along Guarlford Road aroused strong opposition, with hundreds of letters of objection being sent to MHDC.

The council later refused planning permission for the scheme.

Christopher Knock, Mr Bullock's agent, said: "We have given this new plan an awful lot of thought. We looked really hard at what the farm needs."

He said the new location of the farm would reduce the amount of farm traffic on Guarlford Road.

"At present, his farm vehicles have to travel on Guarlford Road between Mill Farm and his fields.

"With the farm's new location, they can drive straight across the fields without having to use Guarlford Road at all."