DEVELOPERS want to build 25 homes in Rudheath, despite plans to build an incinerator nearby.

McInerney Homes wants to build 25 houses on land off Cottage Close near Griffiths Road, even though local residents have already put their homes on the market because of the proposed incinerator at Lostock.

Plans are due to be submitted any day now by waste energy group WRG to build the incinerator on land off Griffiths Road.

Rudheath Parish Council chairman Tony Lawrenson said: "All I have to say is why would anyone want to build there, or live there for that matter, before the incinerator has been decided?"

The housing application was first lodged in September but had to be withdrawn because the applicant had not carried out community consultation, a spokesman for Vale Royal Borough Council confirmed.

But residents have now been consulted and a decision on the development is now due to be taken before March.

If Vale Royal Borough Council approves the plans, McInerney Homes say work will start immediately and last about a year.

The homes will all be two storey with their own private gardens. Some will be terraced in rows of three, four and six houses, three blocks will be semi-detached houses and three will be detached.

A spokesman for the developers confirmed that the proposals form the second phase of development off Cottage Close.

Plans to build 20 terraced houses to the north of the site were approved in 2002 and McInerney Homes hopes to unite the two to create a comprehensive and coherent development.

Cottage Close will serve as an access point to the 0.82 hectare site.

The plan states that the development would provide up to two parking spaces for each home and access for the disabled, including drop down curbs.

A canalside footpath is also proposed.