A PLAN has been revealed to build more homes in a village just metres from a huge site already being primed for 100 new homes.

Lockley Homes has asked for ‘permission in principle’ to build up to nine ‘custom-build’ and carbon-neutral homes off Stourport Road in Great Witley near Worcester.

If approved, the homes would be built within a stone’s throw of a proposed 100-home plan on the other side of Stourport Road.

Lockley Homes said the nine new homes would be a ‘continuation of recent development’ along the village’s Stourport Road which would “successfully integrate with the surrounding appearance.”

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Great Witley Parish Council has argued against the plan saying in an objection to the council that the homes were “not needed” and would obscure views of the Abberley Hills.

Earlier this year, Bloor Homes revealed early plans to build up to 100 homes on the fields behind Great Witley CE Primary School and Great Witley Village Hall.

Bloor Homes has not yet submitted a planning application but instead put forward a ‘screening opinion’ – one of the earliest stages of potential housing plans – which meant the district council had to rule whether the 100-home plan first needed an environmental impact assessment.

The land earmarked by Bloor Homes has been included in the ongoing review of the South Worcestershire Development Plan (SWDP) – which sets out where thousands of new homes will be built across the region in the next 20 years – but only for up to 44 homes.

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Previous plans to build 175 homes on the same land and neighbouring fields were turned down twice by planners at Malvern Hills District Council in 2016 and 2017.

The second plan, which received more than 100 objections from villagers in Great Witley, was turned down again by a government planning inspector after an appeal was launched by Worcester-based developer Stennard Harrison’s Marsten Developments.

MHDC planners said the addition of up to 175 homes would “urbanise” the village and harm views from Witley Park and would be “prominent and dominant” against the grade II listed Witley Court.

Planners added that the homes would bring about a “significant incursion into the open countryside” which would be “significantly at odds with the surrounding built and natural environment.”