PLANS for 125 homes on land near Devizes Sports Club will go on show to the public on Monday amid fears over traffic in London Road.

Councillors are worried the proposal for the site, which was once earmarked for a care home, will add to the already congested route into the town.

Agents Smiths Gore, working for land owners Merchant Venturers, will hold an exhibition on the scheme between 12.30pm and 7.30pm at the sports club in London Road.

The original proposals for a care village on land between the club and Quakers Walk were met with outrage from people living nearby but Wiltshire Council gave approval.

Eventually this plan was not pursued by the St Monica Trust but now the charitable trust wants to gain permission for 125 homes and then sell the land to a developer.

Town councillors Judy Rose and Nigel Carter have spoken out about the new development plan.

Coun Rose said: “I really hope a lot of people will turn out for the meeting and express their views.

“When the Quakers Walk exhibition was staged the developers were completely taken by surprise by the number of people and the strength of feeling expressed. No-one wants to see this type of scheme that will just make traffic in London Road even worse.”

She hopes the Devizes Area Neighbourhood Plan, which was given weight by communities secretary Eric Pickles when he threw out the appeal for Coate Bridge, will help the fight against this plan.

She said: “Devizes Guardians are opposed to this development for exactly the same reasons that they and the community objected to previous proposals for this site.

“It is not included in the Devizes Area Neighbourhood Plan, which is currently out to its final public consultation, and which should be adopted some time early in 2015.

“It has already been given significant weight from the Secretary of State, Eric Pickles, in his refusal of the proposed development at Coate Road, so it should have considerable influence when this comes before the planning committee.”

Coun Carter said he was worried about the impact of traffic and the impact on services such as schools and GP surgeries.

But Mark Schmull, an associate with Smiths Gore, said people had to realise that permission had already been given for a care home complex and this would generate traffic.

He said: “We will have traffic consultants at the meeting that can give information and can discuss traffic models.”

He added that the plan would not include anything radical, such as a bypass.