PLANS for a large-scale community development on a Teesside housing estate have angered its residents.

Details for offices and community facilities at Ingleby Barwick have been submitted to Stockton Borough Council, months after a previous application was withdrawn because of residents' objections.

Councillors are now calling on residents to voice their opinions at a meeting next week.

Concerns have been raised over lack of consultation with the community.

The planning application has been submitted by Nunthorpe Nurseries Group Ltd, which last year hoped to build the country's first "eco park" on the land, in Blair Avenue.

But residents had concerns over the second phase of the £8m development, which called for two and three-storey office blocks, a gym, a horticultural nursery and a pub.

All the buildings in the eco park were to be constructed from straw, and would use electricity created by their own wind turbine.

Following public outcry, Ian Howlett and Paul Nelson, of Nunthorpe Nurseries, decided to withdraw the planning application and go back to the drawing board.

The latest application is seeking outline planning permission for a mixed development, including office accommodation, business units, a pub and community facilities.

The proposals also include plans for three wind turbines on the site.

Ward councillor for Ingleby Barwick West, Councillor Kenneth Dixon, said: "We are bitterly disappointed that Nunthorpe Nurseries has not fulfilled the promise it made to our community to engage in extensive consultation before submitting a further planning application.

"This promise was made to our community when they withdrew their eco park planning application last year."

Councillor David Harrington, of the Ingleby Barwick Independent Society (Ibis), said there was also speculation that another revised application was going to be submitted, which would include an access road near two schools.

He said: "We are going to be checking this out with the council this week, but the area has high congestion anyway, particularly in the morning."

Residents are being encouraged to attend a ward surgery at All Saints' School, on Wednesday, between 6pm and 7pm, to share their opinions on the scheme.