RESIDENTS are up in arms over a proposal to build a warehouse and car park on their doorsteps.

People living in Back Cemetery Terrace and Newchurch Row, Stacksteads, say noise from the proposed development will be "intolerable" and have signed a petition to get the plans withdrawn.

The proposed three-storey building, to be erected by J and J Ormerod, would house a warehouse and machinery area, production unit and office.

Space would also be given over to a car park.

The company, which has its main offices in Railway Street, Bacup, makes units and fittings for kitchens and bathrooms.

Residents, many of them elderly, say they already suffer constant noise from extraction fans in the factory building and lorries leaving in the early hours.

They fear that with the added buildings, vehicles and machinery the noise will become unbearable. The houses look out onto the current car park of the existing warehouse which runs the length of Back Cemetery Terrace. The new units would be built on the existing car park.

The petition, signed by 23 residents, has been organised by Bryan Lamb, who lives in Back Cemetery Terrace.

The developers were today unavailable for comment.