STUDLEY parish councillors are to take the unusual step of asking Stratford Council to revoke planning permission to convert a semi-detached house into flats.

The parish council recently wrote to Stratford Council outlining a number of deep concerns it has with the plans to extend a house on the corner of Highfield Road and Station Road and turn it into five flats.

Parish Council Chairman Bill McCarthy said although it was extremely rare, district council planning committees did have the power to revoke permission.

He said the parish council would lobby the committee to do so because of various ongoing concerns, not least the threat of the flats overloading a sewerage system already at capacity.

Raw sewage has been known to flood into residents' gardens in the road before and Severn Trent Water said it feared the new flats would exacerbate the problem.

Councillor McCarthy said: "We have outlined all our fears in a letter to Stratford Council.

"We do want to see this revoked. The sewers are already at capacity.

"We understand that sewerage and water problems are not technically planning matters but there are a whole host of other issues with this development which we are very unhappy about."

In its planning application developers Eden Properties said it believed the scale of the development would respect the "nature and character of the area."