PROPOSALS to build homes and a wakeboarding centre in Ashton Keynes have come under fire.

Residents packed into Ashton Keynes Village Hall tonight to hear about proposals by Stroud man Alvin Lindley to build what is believed to be 25 holiday homes at Lake 82.

At the meeting, which was led by Yvonne Jordan of Ashton Keynes Parish Council (AKPC), residents claimed the development would cause traffic congestion and the holiday homes would be an eyesore.

One resident said: “I moved into this village because I wanted to find a good school for my children - If I wanted to live somewhere surrounded by holiday homes I would have bought in a different village.”

The parish council’s Neighbourhood Plan document, which shapes future development in the area, does not include a strategy for dealing with holiday home applications, and it held the meeting to find out people’s views on the issue.

It will be looking to the comments people made and answers to questionnaires handed out at the meeting to help it create a holiday home strategy in its Neighbourhood Plan .

After the meeting Mr Lindley said: “When there is an application if there is one I will give villagers the opportunity to see it and I will take on board their views. Having listened to today I might be pinned up and hanged. What was said and presented was very biased.”

Partridge Homes Cotswold Limited (PHCL) are considering submitting plans to build 60 houses north of Gosditch at Dairy Fields.

Last week PHCL’S proposals came under fire from residents at the Ashton Keynes Parish Council meeting who said the homes would ruin the site as it is in a conservation area and outside the village’s settlement boundary.

M C Cullimore Gravels Ltd and Cotswold Wake Park Ltd recently submitted an application to Wiltshire Council to create a wakeboarding facility on the lake at Kent End Farm.The application includes details of a single storey building for changing facilities toilets and showers.

AKPC is objecting to the plans as it is concerned that the facility could become something much bigger in future.