Developers want to put four big industrial units on a site in a Leicestershire village.
They want to redevelop a parcel of land which currently has planning permission for a 1.2m sq ft parts distribution warehouse for Jaguar Land Rover in Desford.
The car maker no longer needs the site because of a purpose-built warehouse complex being built for it 15 miles away in Appleby Magna.
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The new owners of the Neovia warehouse site in Desford want to knock down some existing buildings and build the four units instead.
They say the 900,000 sq ft scheme could eventually employ 1,200 people.
The complex would straddle land on the western side of the village and sit within the footprint of the planned Jaguar Land Rover warehouse.
The biggest building under the new plans would be 500,000 sq ft.
There are fears it could add to traffic problems and overdevelopment in the village which already has one new housing scheme being built and planning for another across the road from Neovia.
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Another developer wants to put up a third housing estate on fields near to the village primary school.
Coun Mark Sheppard-Bools, who represents the ward on the borough council, said the village had historical problems with HGVs clogging its narrow streets rather than using the proper access to Neovia and a Caterpillar assembly site next door, via the Hinckley Road.
The managers of Sport In Desford, opposite the Neovia site in Peckleton Lane, are also concerned about increased traffic.
Neovia Logistics sold the 82-acre Desford site this summer to a private investment fund called Griffen 海角视频. There are currently three warehouses.
Griffen also bought an adjoining 46-acre site from Neovia, which could also be lined up for development.
There was speculation at the time of the sale that the full deal had a value of around £100 million.
The actual applicant for the 900,000 sq ft scheme - called Griffen Park - is a specialist logistics developer called Gulf Ventures 2, based in Jersey.
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A planning statement from architects Fletcher Rae said: “The impacts of development on adjacent settlements has been given careful consideration.
“As well as internalising all activities, building heights have been adjusted so that the smallest, Unit 2, is also the lowest in height.
“The largest building mass is Unit 4 which is positioned at the farthest point from local settlement and screened by smaller development.
“Given the contemporary logistics activities proposed, the site will need to operate 24/7 and acoustic studies demonstrating all necessary supplementary boundary protections will be undertaken to satisfy the necessary criteria to achieve this.”
It said there would be landscaping around the site and the developers were committed to doing their best to stop HGVs turning left out of the site and going through the village.
Coun Sheppard-Bools said he was concerned such a large scale development would lead to traffic problems.
He said: “Practically speaking the amount of space used will be the same as under the Jaguar Land Rover plans.
“The thing we are most concerned about is the impact on traffic as well as the number of workers travelling in and out.
“The road network is already overwhelmed, especially with new housing estates going up.
“Lorries already come through the village because the satnvas point them that way and we have regular reports of lorries hitting street furniture in the village.”
Parish council chairman Coun Colin Crane said the buildings appear to be more attractive than the big box that had been planned for Jaguar Land Rover.
He said should the plans go ahead every effort should be taken to stop lorries going through the village.
Sue Houghton chairs Sport in Desford which has football and five-a-side pitches, tennis and squash courts and a gym and hosts local children's groups and community events.
She said there was no mention of Sport in Desford in the planning application despite it being directly opposite the site.
She said: “The main thing for us is the access which is not that far from us. We would prefer to see it moved further down Peckleton Lane towards Caterpillar, and feel it should be more substantial than just a T-junction.
“There will also be a lot of worker traffic coming into the village and there are a lot of children on bikes who cycle down here.
“Another issue is the visual impact because it’s going to be very big and close to the road.”