A developer wants to build more than 100 homes on land less than a mile from where plans for 500 properties were rejected.

Redrow Homes has submitted an application to Medway Council for outline permission to construct 136 homes on land off Mierscourt Road, Rainham.

The plot, opposite the busy Lonsdale Drive junction, is a stone’s throw from land off the A2 where two different housebuilders have previously submitted applications.

In October, an application by Gladman to build 200 homes on land off Moor Street, Rainham, used by the summer boot fair, was thrown out by the council’s planning committee. The month before, another application for 300 homes off Otterham Quay Lane was rejected. Persimmon has since appealed the decision.

Both applications prompted hundreds of objections from residents and councillors concerned about traffic and the impact on schools and doctors surgeries.

There have already been dozens of objections to the latest application, raising similar concerns.

The blueprints include 36 flats and 100 two, three, four and five-bedroom homes. The entrance will be off Mierscourt Road, between the junctions for Lonsdale Drive and Oastview.

In a letter of objection, Judith Elvy, who lives in Oastview, said: “The traffic has dramatically increased on Mierscourt Road and there have been several accidents at the junction with Lonsdale Drive. To add another junction on to Mierscourt Road would be putting another danger on an already busy road.”

Fellow Oastview resident Vincent Harpum wrote: “The health and education provision servicing this area is already over-stretched and the addition of 136 families will be unworkable.”

Cllr Howard Doe, whose ward covers the site, said the local infrastructure could not cope. He chaired a meeting against the Moor Street proposal last year.

He added: “These are the last areas of green in the east of the borough. If they get eaten up, it is not only the loss of the land but a strain on the roads and schools. Rainham and Hempstead has already met the requirement for homes over the last 50 years.”

The application is due to be considered by a council planning committee before April. The last date to comment on the plans is February 8.