A DEVELOPER has revised plans to build homes on a former hospital site in a bid to get the scheme approved.

Wainhomes want to build 50 houses on the site of the former Fall Birch Hospital in Horwich.

But residents say the plan will cause traffic chaos and the narrow streets surrounding the site will not be able to cope.

The plan includes demolishing a house in Blandford Rise to create an access road and was recommended for refusal by Horwich town council.

Wainhomes has written to Bolton Council with revised drawings of the site and insists that the plan is suitable for the area.

The company has now proposed straightening the access road and building walls outside houses next to the site to protect residents' gardens.

But residents living near the site have vowed to continue fighting the application.

Les Barlow, aged 67, who lives in Blandford Rise, said: "The company keep putting in application after application and the residents have quite simply had enough.

"It has caused a lot of people a lot of stress."

Paul Sedgwick, agent for Wainhomes, said in his letter to Bolton Council: "These walls, which will be 1.8 metres (nearly 6ft) in height, will ensure that there will be no disturbance to the enjoyment of the residential gardens.

"The amenity of occupants of other properties in Blandford Rise will not suffer unacceptable harm."

Mr Sedgwick said a statement from the Ashley Helme Associates highways consultation company, included with the application, concludes that the traffic generated by a development of 80 houses can be satisfactorily accommodated on the local highway network. "This development is for 50 houses," he added in the letter.

Derek Rutter, who lives in Purbeck Drive, said: "This is totally unacceptable.

"Mr Sedgwick said residents will not suffer unacceptable harm, but why should they suffer any harm at all?

"There are a lot of children in the area because Claypool School is nearby and it will cause even more chaos at the Beehive roundabout."