Hersham Village Society has voiced opposition over a developer’s plans to redevelop former sheltered housing for the elderly.
An application to turn Hylton Lodge, Hersham, into nine flats and 33 houses, has been submitted to Elmbridge Council.
The society said it supported redevelopment on the site, but that the current proposals for 11 two-storey blocks, and one three-story block, were over-development.
A spokesman for the society said the plans were “un-neighbourly”, not in keeping with the area, and would intrude on homeowners in Trenchard Close.
The site is not new to controversy, and in 2007 more than 100 people took to the streets to protests against pans to run a YMCA project from there.
The public gallery overflowed with Hersham residents when the application reached the council.
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