Residents are unimpressed by revised plans to build homes on the site of a former care home.

Selwood Housing wants to demolish Fairview House in Warminster and build 12 homes but town councillors have again objected to plans to develop the site.

Proposed development of the Gipsy Lane site was first opposed by councillors in July. Initially, there were plans to build eight houses and six flats but these have since been revised to six houses and six flats.

Despite this reduction, residents and councillors are still arguing that Selwood’s plans would be an overdevelopment of the site.

Residents are concerned about the traffic that would be created, especially when combined with the number of vehicles going to and from the new Ashwood Care Centre in Gipsy Lane.

More than 70 people attended a meeting of Warminster Town Council’s planning advisory committee last week to voice their disapproval of the scale of the plans.

It voted unanimously to object to the application, but said it was not opposed to development on the site as long as it is in keeping with the rest of the neighbourhood.

Cllr Paul Macdonald said after the meeting: “This is the wrong plan in the wrong place. The encouraging thing is that town councillors and residents are still united in working with Selwood to get the right plan.”

 Martin Somervell, Gipsy Lane Community Group chairman, said: “We want to make it clear we are not opposed to Selwood developing the site but it needs to be the right proposal. This is a close community of people of retirement age and these plans could disrupt that.

“The block of flats would be completely out of keeping with the area. It would lend itself much better to bungalows and we are asking Selwood to work with us, as they are not listening.”

The decision on whether to grant planning permission to develop the site will rest with Wiltshire Council.