TEN homes could be built on the site of two existing properties in Buxton Road, Weymouth.

A planning application is asking for the demolition of 96 and 98 replacing them with a terrace of five homes, a terrace of three and a pair of semi-detached homes. All will be three-bed.

The proposal, which has been revised since first submitted, had met with opposition from the town’s civic society and others.

Both existing homes date from the 1930s and are set back in the plot, with outbuildings, roughly a quarter of the size of a standard football pitch.

An application paper suggests that the area is currently in transition with several sites being redeveloped with modern homes at higher densities. It says that if the proposal is allowed it will give a density of 41.6 homes per hectare, which the application says is consistent with other applications in the wider area.

Under the proposals there would be a row of 5 terraced homes, three storeys high, close to the street with another terraced row of three towards the back of the site and a pair of semis alongside them. Each will have at least one parking space, the properties to the front having an integral garage.

Weymouth Civic Society say they believe the ten homes would be an overdevelopment and believe the design is ‘unsuitable’ and out of keeping with the area.

Other comments also claim the proposal to be an overdevelopment with concerns also expressed about access to the site by rubbish lorries or a fire engine, although the highways team has raised no objection, subject to conditions.

Weymouth Town Council objects on the grounds of density of the development and says there would be overshadowing of neighbouring properties and a loss of privacy – with the development not being in keeping with the character of local buildings.