RESIDENTS living close to a controversial housing development say the latest plans issued to Wrexham council have left them feeling ignored again.

The plans to build more than 300 homes at Home Farm, just off Gresford Road, were only approved on appeal and despite constant opposition from local campaigners, developers continue to cause much anger and frustration, with the news that the location of Sales offices' for both Anwyl and Bellway Homes has been re-located from original plans.

In those plans, which were given the green light by the authority last year, the Sales offices for both companies were due to be sighted off the Straight Mile, but ones submitted just over a week ago reveal they will now be moved Gresford Road, just yards from the entrance to Old Meadow Court, with temporary site access from that location already causing distress to those living there.

Dennis Owen, who lives on Gresford Road, has campaigned tirelessly against the scheme and says the decision to use Gresford Road for yet more site access goes against the advice of the construction company carrying out the work and the council's own Highways officer, who both preferred to use the Straight Mile for access purposes.

He said: "All the traffic has already been diverted to the site via Gresford Road, which went against the advice of Hollingsworth (Bros UK Ltd), who wanted to use the Straight Mile but were told by Planning they weren't allowed to.

"On the detailed planning, one of the things it showed was an area designated for a sales office, however, an application to the council to allow them to put a sign up, shows this has now been moved to Gresford Road. The location they're using now was originally designated as a green area, so although they've applied for planning permission to put this new sign up, they haven't applied for permission to put the Sales Offices' there.

"The plans say they're putting in access to minimise disturbance on Gresford Road, but the Sales office wasn't even supposed to be there in the first place!"

The additional stresses placed on Gresford Road, and in particular those living on it, will be become even more concentrated when part of it will be closed for a period of 16 weeks from April 23, due to major drainage works taking place.

However, a spokesman for Wrexham council has confirmed that additional planning permission is not required to move or establish a temporary structure on a development site.

They said: “Temporary buildings and moveable structures are permitted in connection with developments under Planning Orders, and as such the developers would not need planning permission from the Council to establish- or move – a sales office on site."

Both Anwyl and Bellway Homes were contacted for a comment, with a spokesman for the former denying a Sales Office was currently being constructed on the site.

They said: "What's being constructed at the moment is not actually a Sales office, but welfare cabins for the Hollingsworth construction workers who are currently on site carrying out the work, however we won't know any more about this matter until the cabins are delivered to the site in the coming weeks."