Ross residents have hit back at a controversial 16 home plan to be developed at a paddock on Merrivale Lane, Ross-on-Wye.

A number of Gazette readers have reiterated concerns on the ‘over-development’ of residential areas claiming insufficient infrastructure and public services. Many who live in the area already feel doctors surgeries, dentists, roads, parking, schools, and other public services and infrastructure are already stretched and that adding new residents will stretch them further.

These concerns were also raised with the 1,500 new homes due to be built around Ross. The Gazette reported on Ross Town Council heavily criticising those proposals.

One resident raised the question as to how a 16 home plan would even be able to fit on only 1.5-acres of land; pictured is the site layout plan of the proposals. Responding to the site plans on Herefordshire Council’s website Jacqueline Tonge said: “They have been squeezed in with hardly any garden, and parking for two vehicles but no provision for visitor or tradesmen parking.”

Herefordshire Wildlife and Countryside Conservation hit back at the proposed plans, they said: “This site should be preserved, Ross already has so much new development taking place. The parking in this area is at capacity.”

Ross Town councillor Daniel Lister said: “We aren’t building any more land, before long we will be nothing more then a concrete city.”