FRUSTRATED residents in The Causeway in Petersfield are to mount a last-ditch bid against housing there.

A public meeting is to be held, a petition set up and door-to-door canvassing carried out in an attempt to stop up to 200 new homes being built at Causeway Farm.

The site is approved for housing in the Petersfield Neighbourhood Plan (PNP) but campaigners say it is far from a done deal.

They want to see the plan, being put out to a referendum in the autumn, voted against by the public so it is not adopted.

A spokesman for SCRAP – Stop Causeway Redevelopment and Planning – says people are infuriated because, despite numerous planning applications being declined for the site, it continues to be included in the neighbourhood plan.

“NIMBYs we may be but the planners and planning inspectors have always been on our side,” he said.

Richard Barnes, of Broadway Park, added:?“Development at Causeway Farm has been turned down previously as ‘having a detrimental impact upon the established landscape character of the site, neither conserving or enhancing the national park’.

“I?don’t understand what, if anything, has changed.”