Bostock Hill residents are up in arms once again after they discovered that the Development Applications Board (DAB) will this week consider revised plans to build condominiums on an area of protected farmland.

The new plans were submitted after the original approval for the proposals expired last February and apparently move the original agricultural zoning line more than 50 feet.

They also include proposals for a swimming pool to be built on the land, between Bostock Hill and Dudley Hill, Paget.

The plan apparently goes against the original application that set borders for the development so that it would not encroach on arable land, made after a ruling by Independent Planning Inspector Peter Cummings.

Yesterday, Bostock Hill resident Mark Eldridge said he went into planning on the off-chance yesterday and saw the revised plans for the first time.

"This is a whole new plan - these major changes would have been put through without us knowing if I hadn't gone in," he said.

Another resident, Blair Butterfield told The Royal Gazette he believed that Bostock Mews, the construction company interested in building on the site, had submitted the revised plans "on the quiet" in the hope that they would slip through unnoticed.

He said: "We've found that the company has submitted more plans to put up four dwelling units along with a swimming pool. This is going to encroach at least 20 feet into the area of farmland. The independent inspector stopped them from doing that but it looks as if they are just going to go past that."

He said that following the "small victory" in which Mr. Cumming recommended a curtailment of the development, he and his neighbours had slacked off "because we figured that they were going to build three and that that was going to be it".

Mr. Butterfield said: "This is a breach of promise. We're going to take our concerns to the Planning Department and then come back to the media if necessary. We're going to be shouting about this."

He added: "We do not forget, nor do we intend to be ignored. We shall fight with all our national pride to save our precious environment. We say to all who believe in Bermuda's most precious resource to stand up and shout from the highest hills for this rape of our farmlands to stop."