A revised plan for a large new housing development on the edge of a Herefordshire town has drawn nearly 60 further objections.

Muller Homes is attempting to build 118 homes on 10 acres of farmland south of Barons Cross Road on the western edge of Leominster.

With 76 supporting documents, the firm’s resubmitted application seeks to address the reasons for the refusal of a similar scheme last year, with newly commissioned reports covering air and river quality, and an explanation of how the scheme would fit into the wider proposed “sustainable urban extension” (SUE) to the southwest of the town.

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The deadline for comments on the plan to be submitted is today (April 26).

Objections from locals so far published mainly highlight the impact on traffic along existing residential streets through which the development would be chiefly accessed.

Tim Wilson of Westcroft said: “There is just no way these narrow roads could take any more traffic of the volume that would be generated by all of these new buildings.”

Leominster Civic Society said it also “objects strongly” to the bid, and was “ disappointed to see this previously rejected application appear again”.

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“The same issues raised before by ourselves and several hundred other residents and interested parties remain the same,” it said.

Herefordshire Council strategic housing officer Tina Wood said that while the scheme meets the council’s policy requiring a quarter of new homes to be classed as affordable, she objected to the proposed “housing mix”.

Pre-application advice from the council “was for a mix of houses, bungalows and maisonettes”, but what is instead proposed are “three-storey apartment blocks with no amenity space and further two-storey apartment blocks with inadequate communal space”, Ms Wood said.

Comments on the application, numbered 230541, can be made until April 26 – extended from the earlier given date of April 22.