Plans have been revealed for more than 1,000 new homes to be built on farmland at Mistley and Lawford.
Now worried councillors are opposing the proposals, which they fear would turn their villages into a small town.
"It's over-development on a grand scale," said chairman Brian Rolfe at last night's meeting of Lawford Parish Council.
He pointed out it was totally outside anything they had approved in the Local Plan and said it if got the go-ahead, the only green areas left in the village would be the playing fields.
The application for nearly 38 hectares to be redesignated in Tendring Council's new Local Plan for residential and mixed use development comes just a month after similar applications for 302 houses on two other sites in Lawford.
The latest plan covers the farmland at the rear of homes on the south side of Long Road, stretching from the footpath opposite Colchester Road, Lawford, to Dead Lane and across to Clacton Road, Mistley.
Councillors agreed to object to the loss of open space, and in particular the green wedge between Mistley and Lawford.
Published Tuesday, November 16, 2004
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