An amended application could see 16 NCHA homes built on Chestnut Avenue playing field.

Residents have re-affirmed opposition to a planning application on green space.

Nottingham Community Housing Association (NCHA) initially wanted to build 20 houses, six flats and a shared house on Chestnut Avenue playing field, Newark.

However, the application has been amended to reduce the number of houses to 16 and to include a multi-use games area (MUGA).

But residents raised their concerns once again over the plans.

Lee Yarnell, who lives nearby, told Newark Town Council the MUGA was undersized, and was too close to the boundary of dwellings and also dominated the open space it would be built on.

The proposed shared house was also described as monstrously oversized and not in keeping with the estate.

Mr Yarnell said: “The existing properties adjoining the park will lose all privacy and be overlooked.”

The town council again objected to the application, saying it was against the district council’s Green Space Strategy, and fears over increased traffic.

Laurence Goff said: “The people have spoken loud and clear for a number of months. The traffic is chaos in this area already and we need to put a stop to it.”

Planning committee chairman Mrs Tracey Mathias said: “This application is not much different. Little has changed in that we should sustain our original objection.”

The council has also called for a noise assessment over concerns that children playing on the MUGA, which will be near homes, could cause a nuisance.

Mrs Gill Dawn said: “We are all getting sick of this application coming back again. If a group of kids want to kick a ball around there’s not much room, and the other problem is noise. The MUGA is at the bottom of residents’ gardens.

“This development is needed, but not there. We are talking about a huge development.”