FOLLOWING a site meeting by district planners, residents with homes at The Haie, near Newnham, have been promised a detailed report on all aspects of development in the area.
Residents fear recent clearance of land acquired last year by developer Richard Hearne, on which there is extant planning permission for holiday chalets, heralds imminent building work.
However because the profile of the issue has been raised by the residents and by district councillor Stephen McMillan, planners have agreed to look into the matter.
"We hope it will all lead to a sensible outcome," said residents' spokesman Richard Carter, who said the matter was quite complex.
So much so that although the planners' report was initially promised for October, the residents have since been told it may not be produced until November or even later.
Mr Carter said it was hard to believe Mr Hearne had no plans for the area because the speciality of his development company was holiday chalets.
Since original plans were agreed 20 years ago the emphasis at The Haie had moved from leisure to residential.
Such a development would lead to enormous problems not least the narrow and poorly surfaced track leading up to the listed country house, which has been converted to luxury flats and homes in converted outbuildings.
The former owner of the whole site, Eddie Coombs, had been accused in the past of breaching the conditions for converting the house by not upgrading and surfacing the road but nothing had come of this.
Traffic on the scale that could be imagined for a group of holiday homes would worsen an already dangerous situation – and it would be worse still if further proposals for a caravan and camping field emerged again.
"I own the field in question but if I had to move because there was a holiday complex on my doorstep somebody else could easily develop that," said Mr Carter.
Mr Coombs is still owner of the road.
Mr Carter said the whole issue deserved being brought out into the open and residents were looking forward to hearing what the council had to report.