A PLAN to build new homes in a village has been put forward just weeks after a 150-home plan on the same land was turned down.

Malvern Hills District Council refused a move which would have seen 150 homes built in Kempsey near Worcester following an outcry from villagers.

Despite the rejection from the council and the opposition from locals, the plan has been submitted again with the number of homes reduced to 140.

An earlier plan to include land to build a new primary school in the village has also been included again in the redrawn plan.

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A total of 237 objections were made against the plan by Hallam Land Management to build the homes off the A38 in the village, who said Kempsey would not be able to cope with the extra people or cars, before planners turned down the application.

Planners said the proposed site was outside the identified development boundary for Kempsey and the council could not find any exceptions to build on the green land and strictly-controlled countryside.

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The council was also not reassured the application would take into consideration the effect the homes would have on nearby roads and flooding.

Questions were raised over the plan to build 150 homes with many villagers saying ‘enough was enough’ when it was first revealed last year.

The application would have added to at least another 200 homes planned for other parts of the village and the hundreds of homes already built in recent years.

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An ‘unacceptable’ plan to build 30 homes on fields off Post Office Lane in the village could still be allowed to go ahead despite being rejected by the council.

The council said the new homes would be “inappropriate” and would have an “adverse impact” and “unacceptably encroach” on open countryside but an appeal has now been launched by Lantar Developments to the government’s planning inspectors who have the power to overrule the district council and could allow the work to go ahead.

A total of 80 objections from villagers in Kempsey were made against the plan during consultation who said the homes would be built in an “unsustainable” location and condemned the effect it would have on already-stretched local services such as schools.