HUNDREDS of angry objections have been made against a plan to build 120 new homes on the edge of a village.

Lioncourt Homes wants to build a mix of one-to-four bedroom homes in Rushwick but villagers have registered more than 270 objections with Malvern Hills District Council.

Many objectors bemoaned the number of homes saying they were not needed and the village did not have the infrastructure to cope.

The building of more homes on the edge of Rushwick would destroy the 'village feel' and push it towards becoming an extension of Worcester, the objectors said.

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The homes would be built on fields to the eastern edge of the village between Claphill Lane, Bransford Road and the A4440.

A consultation was held with villagers in February and received a mixed response, according to the developer.

Dozens of objections were made by villagers in Rushwick within a week of the application's submission and a huge petition against further development in the village attracted hundreds of signatures from when plans were first announced earlier this year.

Rushwick Parish Council also objected to the application saying it would reduce the 'significant gap' around the village and would result in "substantial" overdevelopment.

The parish council also said the village did not have enough facilities to cope with the extra people that would be living in the new homes.

The revised draft South Worcestershire Development Plan (SWDP) which sets out a blueprint for where homes, offices and other developments would be built up 2041 includes plans for an extra 1,000 homes in Rushwick.

The 'expansion' plans for Rushwick also include a new railway station and 500-space car park and a new primary school.

The homes would be built in three phrases with the first 30 homes put up in 2021 and two subsequent phases each of 45 homes built by 2023, if the plan was approved.

Objector Jacqueline Wyatt of Christine Avenue said the village could not cope.

She said: "Council should be able to refuse on the grounds school at capacity, insufficient public transport, not planned within SWDP and increase in size again will make the "village" a suburb of St. John's.

"We chose to live here because it is a village with community spirit which is being dwindles away through developers greed."