Neighbours to the former New Inn at Littlemoor are hoping to resolve their parking problems with a new housing scheme for the site.

Residents in three cottages say they have been without parking since a previous developer put up security fencing around the former pub car park, stopping them using the area. One claims that they were promised the parking spaces would be renewed once the site had been developed, but the scheme failed to materialise.

Now a new application for the site has been submitted – which involves the demolition of the former pub and three two-storey terraced homes being put up in its place.

Dorset Council has received a planning application from Whiteside Homes to demolish the building and build the three-bed homes with seven adjoining parking spaces.

Neighbour Caroline Marsh has contacted the council to say that for 35 years she and her family, and other neighbours, have parked at the rear of her house in The New Inn car park.

“We were asked by the original development company to park elsewhere whilst the work takes place with the assurance that we would be allocated parking. Please can you re-assure myself and the other two cottages in the same situation that this is still the case.?

“This whole scenario has in turn created parking issues for our neighbours across the road and the other side of The New Inn,” she says.

A decision on the application has yet to be made with the deadline for comments on the proposal ending last week.

Weymouth town councillors have submitted ‘no comment’ on the application.

Another resident, Mr Timothy Sutton, asks Dorset Council to reject the plan for the three homes: “The terrace including the New Inn adds architectural variety to the local environment and should be retained completely for its historic and visual character.

Eric Ricketts includes an illustration of the terrace in Part 3 of his book, The Buildings of Old Weymouth and comments positively on this potentially most attractive block,” he says.