Planners have submitted a draft development framework for Camp Dolent, a 0.27 hectare (1.65 vergees) field on the corner of Tertre Lane and Route des Coutures, near Vale School.
They have estimated between eight and 17 new homes could be created on the site and have proposed a multi-storey design to ‘make most efficient use of the land’.
David Le Cras, who bought a property in Le Courtil de Fontaine nine years ago, said he had suspected something was in the works since last year.
‘The real surprise came last April when the land was bought by a speculator for £800,000,’ he said.
Although he feared it would go ahead regardless of residents’ concerns, Mr Le Cras said it was just too much development in such a narrow lane.
‘There are already 48 houses – there is the farmhouse, the self-catering apartments, this clos, Woodstock [Gardens] and other houses further up the lane,’ he said.
‘With the number of back-ups we see now, traffic is going to be an even bigger concern and if there are 17 houses you could be looking at an extra 34 cars.
‘I am sure there are far more suitable sites around that could be developed,’ he said.
A number of strong objections were made last month against a St Peter’s field’s conversion into a seasonal glamping site.
‘If this was proposed in St Peter’s, St Saviour’s, or even St Andrew’s, can you imagine the outcry?’ said Mr Le Cras.
‘This would be 100% occupancy, all year round.’
Colin Penney, who lives in Woodstock Gardens, said there were several other sites in the immediate vicinity that were soon to be developed.
He said the extent to which the area was being built up was ‘starting to get silly’.
‘We’re just going to be looked over everywhere.
‘I’m not one to stop progress but it is just getting silly now,’ he said.
‘What can we [the residents] really do? When you look at that [the development framework] it looks like a done deal.’
Mr Penney said he had a lot of sympathy for homeowners in Le Courtil de Fontaine – a 33-home development created in the last 10 years – whose new-build properties would diminish in value.
‘We have been here for 20 or so years, so it isn’t so bad for us,’ he said.
‘However, a lot of those in the clos are young people who have put all their money and more into buying them, and then all of a sudden they are going to be hemmed in with lots of extra houses.’
John and Molly Le Page have lived on Tertre Lane since John built the property four decades ago.
‘We knew something was happening when they took a lot of trees down,’ said Mrs Le Page.
‘I think it’s too much. It is so hard to get out of this road [because of the current access] and you have a lot of school children walking through here.
‘My son is concerned as well as he comes here nearly every day to see us and he has to get his lorry in here,’ she said.
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