A parish council has objected to a planning application to build new houses on the site of an old petrol station.
The application, made by Mrs Lucy Rogers, is to build six dwellings on land at the former Nightingales Garage, Main Street, in Beeford.
In the report to the East Riding of Yorkshire Council’s Eastern Area Planning Sub-committee the proposal has been recommended, by the council’s director of planning and economic regeneration Alan Menzies, to be deferred and delegated for approval.
However Beeford Parish Council have registered an objection to the plans and have asked for them to be refused.
The plans refer to two semi-detached dwellings and four detached dwellings and will be heard at the sub-committee meeting on Monday 8 April.
Chairman of Beeford Parish Council David Hammond said: “We did feel that to build the two semi-detached houses would help to fill in that space where the frontage of the garage was, but the rest is definitely a no no.
“What people do not understand is that the area is spring fed, much like Kilham. Even in a dry time the waters are still coming up.
“We would be disappointed if the application was approved but then again the people who own the land will want to make something of it.
“There is the chance of flooding, I think some of the houses facing onto main street have had problems with drainage and effluent coming through the drains.
“It think it is going to be a very tricky situation for the planners.”
Mr Hammond continued to explain the volume of housing planned for the village in the future could not be supported by the village.
“The village can’t cope with new housing because of the sewerage system, it can’t cope if you get a lot of heavy rain so the top water backs up into the sewerage system,” he said.
“I do not think we can stand much more development. We won’t be able to see the Wolds. You can’t buy a view, but there are things we have got to accept.”
A spokesperson for the Forward Planning Unit did not register an objection to the plan in reference to further developments in Beeford.
After consultation, no objections were received from Yorkshire Water, the Highways Agency or the partnership enabling officer Hilary Bardon.
The applicant argues the development would help meet an anticipated short fall in the housing supply and will also make use of the old petrol station site.
However 11 letters were received from residents airing fears including that the land proposed for building on may be contaminated from the previous petrol station.
Mr Menzies, in the report, said: “Beeford is recognised through existing and emerging plans as a centre for new housing development to compliment the urban centres in meeting the housing needs of the area and hence is a sustainable location.
“The provision of both market and affordable housing in this location would contribute, albeit in a small way, to the overall supply of housing.”
For a report of the meeting’s outcome see next Thursday’s Driffield Times and Post.