CAMPAIGNERS fighting revised plans to build homes in a Winchester street have launched a petition to “ensure a fair hearing”.

Stoney Lane resident Loui Harmer has ramped up a bid to get the controversial development rejected when it goes before a planning committee for a second time.

As previously reported, the scheme, at 7 Stoney Lane, would have seen the home replaced with one three and one four-bedroom semi-detached house, and a terrace of two three-bed, and one two-bed homes.

Neighbours had been jubilant after the planning committee rejected the plans in December, despite planning officers recommending approval.

The new proposal, which would see four homes rather than five, has received dozens of objections so far.

Ms Harmer has launched an online petition to allow more time for people to view the proposals.

It says: “We want the leader of Winchester City Council to ensure that local residents and neighbours have a fair and reasonable opportunity to counter a contentious planning application for 7 Stoney Lane.

“This case has recently been scheduled for a ‘Special Meeting’ on June 7; we feel this decision is being unnecessarily rushed through.”

The petition calls for the decision to instead be put before a regular planning committee on June 21.

Ms Harmer is also calling for all committee members to visit the site before making a decision.

She added: “Weeke is becoming a hot-spot for developers and the detrimental impact to already overloaded traffic flows, pressure on local services, decline in wildlife and resulting glut of meanly-proportioned ‘family homes’ with tiny gardens is unwarranted and unsustainable.

“If this planning application succeeds it will not be long before we are experiencing the ‘Chilbolton effect’, where developers run rife and current householders are forced out.”

A design and access statement, produced by Radley House Partnership on behalf of applicant Sam Doswell, the nephew of former Eastleigh manager Paul Doswell, says: “The proposed scheme makes efficient and effective use of land, delivering a density in keeping with other developments in the area, whilst responding positively to the character, appearance and variety of its surrounding environment.”