CONTROVERSIAL plans to redevelop a brownfield site with hundreds of high rise flats have been slammed by neighbours.

Moda Living submitted plans to build 824 new homes off Sackville Road in Hove last year.

The application will be reviewed by Brighton and Hove City Council’s planning team.

Developers say it will create hundreds of new jobs and provide a “sustainable” community to be “proud of”.

But it follows a previous application which was rejected at the site last summer over residents’ fears the plans are too big for the area to cope.

Moda Living put in new plans for the site in November, but neighbours have accused the company of a “brute force attempt” to get permission to build, and some said it has become a “war of attrition”.

The plans include 564 new flats and offices and workshops for the city’s creative industries.

Meanwhile there is also a plan for a 260 room village for the elderly which will be run by Mayfield. Developers say ten per cent of the homes would have an “affordable rent”.

But scores of residents remain unimpressed, citing concerns over traffic entering the site via a single junction.

They also have fears about pollution, lack of investment in public services and schools, and the “dominating” height of the blocks.

Commenting on the council website one said: “I thought this application had been rejected but here it is again. The planned buildings are way too tall and will overshadow the whole area.

“The single entrance will cause traffic chaos in an area already blighted by too much traffic.”

Another resident said the existing parking situation in the area is already “dire” and living nearby would become “untenable”.

The resident said: “It seems like a brute force attempt to get it passed without really addressing the reasons for its prior refusal.”

Meanwhile another objector said: “This seems to be trying to cram as many people into the space as possible, mainly in flats.

“This is not a city-centre location, and such densely populated buildings, and the resulting traffic do not fit with the character of the area.”

Comments for the development have now been closed, and planning officers aim to make a recommendation for councillors by March 11.