By Emily Bridgewater

HOLBERROW Green residents campaigning against plans to create a permanent site for travelling performers, are outraged at new proposals to double the size of it.

Members of the Holberrow Green Action Group (HGAG) are furious at new proposals which show 16 plots of travellers - compared to nine on the original plans submitted in August.

The plans, submitted by Countryman Fairs of Inkberrow, are to create the site in a six-acre field bordering Morton Hall Lane and the B4092 between Inkberrow and Astwood Bank.

It could house more than 100 people, along with storage of 300 fairground rides, burger bars, caravans, lorries and other vehicles.

HGAG chairman Roger Fleury said: "This change to the plan is absolutely outrageous. The developers were asked by the council to put forward information that would allay concerns.

"However the rise in the number of plots just increases our fears over the key issues of traffic, drainage, noise, sewerage and pollution. It must not go unchallenged."

Householders are now being urged to attend a public meeting held by HGAG next Wednesday, November 23 and also to register renewed objections to planning officers at Wychavon District Council.

The meeting will be held at Inkberrow Church Hall at 8.30pm.

Mr Fleury added: "We've been given until December 1 to submit further comments and it's vitally important that we show the planners that the strength of local feeling hasn't diminished."

For more details, visit www.hgag.co.uk