Developers once again are trying to get planning permission for homes on a patch of land in Westfield in an eight-year planning battle.

The land behind the evergreens next to the entrance to Westfield Industrial Estate has been the subject of multiple applications, but planning permission has only ever been granted for a single dwelling to be built there. Now developers Flower and Hayes — who recently had an appeal against Bath and North East Somerset Council’s refusal of their plans to build seven homes on the site dismissed — have submitted a new planning application to build six.

A planning statement submitted with the application said: “The design has now been reconsidered and the proposed development reduced in size, taking into consideration and addressing all comments received to date.”

The homes would be two-storey, with two homes being semi-detached and the rest detached homes.  But one local, K Ashman, warned it is “absurd to try to cram 6 houses into this tiny space” in a comment on the council’s planning portal.

Another objector, Lisa, warned: “I feel the junctions are dangerous at the moment with the amount of traffic on that particular stretch. More people trying to pull out will mean more accidents, as that road is constantly a speed track and with the hundreds of other cars coming from the Mendip development will mean it becomes a further black spot.”

In total three objections have been lodged, but two supporting comments have too. Stephen Killey said: “Houses need to be built in the area for local people. Also, gardens have been included which is great.”

You can view and comment on the application here.