Nearly 50 people have objected to plans to build 35 new houses in Barford, which one local said would "ruin" the village.

Kendrick Homes submitted a planning application for the scheme along Westham Lane to Warwick District Council last year, as it aimed to turn a parcel of grassland into a new estate.

The developer described the scheme as a "logical infill" for the village with a mixture of one to five bedroom homes.

But locals have not been so positive, with questions raised over parking, the need for more houses and overdevelopment.

"There is already considerable congestion in Bremridge Close with on road car parking and multiple vehicles per household travelling at peak times," one resident wrote.

"The addition of cars from 35 extra houses will exacerbate a problem which is already severe."

Another added: "This small village isn't equipped for more houses and double/triple the people that will come with it.

"The shop is very small and only run by volunteers and the school is a very small school with a very long waiting list as it is.

"Barford is a lovely Village and we don't want it turned into a town."

Another resident said: "The green space that would be lost to the proposed development is essentially the last remaining green space on the west side of the village and is a much used local asset.

"It also hosts a wide variety of flora and fauna, whose habitat would be lost or ruined - not least the protected bat-roost. This development should not be permitted."

Other objections have also been raised by the council's ecological services, health and community protection officer and by Warwickshire County Council's landscape team.

But Kendrick said the plans would not have a major impact on the village.

"The proposed development is relatively modest, designed to respect the local vernacular and surroundings, and includes existing landscape buffers to the north, east, south and west," the application said. 

"This allows an instant landscape strategy which, in conjunction with additional on site plot planting and would further reinforce the visual aesthetic."

Plans show the three acre site would have a mixture of detached, semi-detached and terraced single, two and two and a half storey houses built.

Kendrick says 40 per cent of these would be designated affordable housing - the lowest amount required in the current local plan.

"The site offers an excellent opportunity for a development which integrates well within the existing settlement which complies with its residential mass and scale," the application added.

See the full application here.