A PLAN to build more than 30 homes in a village previously turned down by councillors could still be allowed to go ahead.

Lone Star Land wants to build 34 affordable homes on agricultural land in Fladbury but the plan was turned down by Wychavon District Council’s planning committee last year.

The developer has now appealed to the government’s planning inspector, which has the power to overrule the council, in a bid to get the decision overturned.

More than 120 objections were registered with Wychavon District Council calling for the plan to be turned down ahead of councillors meeting last year.

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Objectors said the village, and its infrastructure, would not be able to cope with the number of extra people and cars who would have to travel to Evesham and Pershore to access services.

One objector, Marion Lathan of Broadway Lane said: “Broadway Lane is a narrow road and the increase in traffic, which has already increased after the last group of houses was approved and built, will become unsustainable.

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“There are stretches where there are no paths, or the paths disappear, the danger of this increases with any increase in traffic. There are few resources in Fladbury, and the school is far too small to take this kind of increase.”

Planners at Wychavon District Council had recommended the application was approved when the authority’s planning committee met in September last year but was turned down by councillors.

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The committee ruled against the affordable housing saying it would result in too much agricultural land being lost and the new homes would be too reliant on people using their cars.

Councillors also said that the planned development was “inappropriate” and ‘too big’ to be classed as a ‘rural exception site’ – which allows for smaller plans to be built even if they are outside development boundaries for villages.

Fladbury Parish Council opposed the housing, which included a mix of two-and-three-bed homes, one-bed flats, and one-and-two-bed bungalows, calling the plan “opportunistic.”

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Lone Star Land has already submitted another application for ‘permission in principle’ to build eight ‘self-build’ plots on the same land with consultation on the plan ending last week.

A wave of objections have again been raised against the plan for the ‘self-build’ plots by villagers in Fladbury repeating the reasons for their opposition to the 34-home plan.