A controversial plan to build homes in a village has been put forward again for the fourth time in five years.

The latest plan would see up to eight homes built off Bransford Road in Rushwick near Worcester and comes after previous moves to build on the land were rejected by both Malvern Hills District Council and government planning inspectors.

The plan for eight homes has already been rejected once by council planners and older plans to build 42 homes have been thrown out twice by the council and once by an inspector.

A plan to build 42 homes on the land off Bransford Road was first rejected by Malvern Hills District Council in 2019.

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The applicant Custom Land then made an appeal to the government’s planning inspectors in a bid to get the decision overturned but that was also rejected nearly two years later.

Custom Land then submitted a new application to build eight homes on the same land in February last year with council planners waiting a year before they rejected the plan.

An appeal has now been launched by Custom Land to the same government planning inspectors who rejected the 2019 bid for 42 homes in the hope of getting the most recent decision reversed.

Despite the previously rejected plan for eight homes now being the subject of an appeal, Custom Land has submitted another albeit similar plan to build eight homes on the same land – which would have to be decided by the council’s planners in the usual way.

Lioncourt Homes is already planning to build 120 homes in Rushwick with the mix of one-to-four-bed homes being built on fields to the eastern edge of the village between Claphill Lane, Bransford Road and the A4440.

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More than 250 objections were made against the application with many saying the village did not have the infrastructure to cope.

A government inspector ruled in favour of Lioncourt Homes in 2021 after council planners missed their legal deadline for making a decision.

You can have your say on the eight-home plan by visiting Malvern Hills District Council’s website. The application number is M/23/01186/OUT and consultation ends on September 28.