Five homes could be built on an uphill plot behind the Esso filling station off the main road at Winterbourne Abbas.

A planning application asks for the demolition of an existing building on the site, north east of a properties known as The Dog House and Shirley Heights, and to then build five homes on the half-hectare with parking spaces for 11 cars.

All of the proposed homes will be three-bed, finished in flint and dark timber cladding with 'green' sedum flat roofs, either one or two storeys high.

A planning agent says in a statement to Dorset Council that allowing for adequate garden and parking space the development would amount to a density of 10.2 dwellings per hectare, considered low density and appropriate for an edge of village site.

The site, which is tarmaced, is currently being used for vehicle storage with a small building in one corner.

Details on the application can be seen on the Dorset Council website, ref 2022/02005 with public comments open until April 22.