Furious residents are calling for a housing developer's plans to be refused – after bosses ditched proposals for affordable homes and village investment.

Planning permission was granted last year for 22 homes to be built on land off Lawson Garth in Brigham.

The firm behind the application, Washington Homes Ltd, agreed to provide some affordable homes and more than £100,000 towards the village's education and infrastructure.

However, it has lodged plans for a new scheme which does not include either of these, stating they are "not viable".

Villagers are now calling for the application to be refused, and Brigham's district councillor has called for it to go before the council's development panel.

Objector Susie Davies said: "I wish to strongly object to the refusal to provide affordable housing and supply financial contributions to the village.

"This application will increase the village and we will need to create additional school places and facilities for the extra population."

David Sharpe, of High Rigg, said: "This is a contentious development and Brigham needs affordable houses rather than more expensive ones."

Preparation works are currently ongoing on the development which was approved last April.

If the new application gets the go-ahead, it would replace the existing one.

A planning statement said the previous scheme is no longer viable as the development is unable to "secure competitive returns" due to both the affordable housing provisions and financial contributions.

The planning statement says: "Our intention is for the current application to be approved with no affordable housing requirement and no financial contributions. Without these obligations the scheme will be both viable and fully deliverable."

Councillor Janet Farebrother, who has called the application in, said the community has never been happy with the development.

"Now it is proposed to change the original application to have no affordable housing and no education contribution, it has made people very angry and they wish to have the matter looked at again," she said.

Workington MP Sue Hayman has also written to Allerdale council's planning officer asking to be "kept updated" on the issue after receiving letters from concerned residents.

The previous agreed contributions were £72,306 for education; £7,500 to highways speed restrictions and £20,900 to a traffic management scheme.

Consultation into the latest proposal runs until Monday.