DEVELOPERS are looking to alter plans for a controversial housing estate in Kington.

Taylor Woodrow are the latest applicants attempting to build homes on the Maesydari Site off Oxford Lane.

The Birmingham-based company submitted an application last week to build 50 houses, nine flats and 108 car parking spaces on the site, which will be accessed from Greenfield Drive if successful.

Permission already exists for 58 homes and 88 car parking spaces to be built after a planning inspector gave the previous landowner, JRM Developments, the go-ahead for its chosen scheme last October.

JRM had twice been denied by Herefordshire Councillors, who rejected their proposals after hearing concerns from Kington residents regarding increased traffic on Llewellin Road and Greenfield Drive.

But despite permission already existing for one housing scheme, Taylor Woodrow will have to go through the entire planning process to get their altered proposals built.

Ian Dutton, a spokesperson for the new applicants, said: "Our revised planning application will increase garden space and parking provision across the project."

Should Taylor Woodrow be successful, the dwellings will be made up of six one-bedroom properties, 21 two-bedroom, 29 three-bedroom and three with four or more bedrooms.

There are 19 affordable dwellings outlined in the scheme.

The 2.67-acre Maesyadari site, formerly known as Morgan's Orchard, was previously used as a nursery and horticultural site, but now lies disused.