THE backlash against a new business park plan has begun with residents urging the parish council to oppose the development.

The controversial plans for the former Glory Mill site in Wooburn Green have already been withdrawn once because of public opinion and the new application could go the same way.

Hanbury Securities has submitted a revised development which includes the construction of four, three and two-storey buildings and parking for 750 cars.

Worried Graham and Dawn Southgate, of Old Moor Lane, Wooburn Moor, whose home backs on to the part of the site, voiced their concerns at Wooburn Parish Council's planning committee meeting on Thursday.

Mr Southgate said: "This plan doesn't make a huge amount of difference to the last but they have taken the height down and spread it out."

He added that the residents are worried because there will be thousands of extra cars in the village and Watery Lane will be used as a rat-run to the motorway.

The business park will be known as Glory Park and a new access road with a roundabout will be built in Watery Lane. It is not an objection to the site being redeveloped, as we all agree that the existing buildings are by any standards an eyesore. It is the scale of the proposals that are probably our main objection."

Planning committee chairman Cllr David Paul said: "The traffic assessment report is a particularly complex document and we have tried to get an opinion from Buckinghamshire County Highways but they haven't reviewed it yet.

"We are, at the moment, not in a position to make a recommendation about the plan."

The parish council will make a recommendation when it has more information about the traffic survey.

A Hanbury Securities spokesman said that the highways report was commissioned by the company and the results were seen to be acceptable for the area.