There was standing room only as more than 100 furious residents rallied to oppose plans for a major housing development in Seaton.

A public meeting was called last night at Seaton Methodist Chapel after the parish council discussed the plans for Low Seaton, submitted by the trustees of the Copsey Family Trust, at a meeting on Monday at the village's parish rooms.

More than 100 people attended last night's meeting, where The Low Seaton Anti-Development Group was formed to campaign against the proposals.

The group includes people from Church Road, Causeway Road, Kelswick Park, Camerton Road, Low Seaton and Camerton Hall.

Chairman Gill Brinicombe called a vote at the meeting to gauge public opinion on the plans and the response was overwhelmingly negative.

Kevin Taylor's house at Low Seaton backs onto one of the proposed development sites and he was one of many people who signed up to back the group.

He said: "The turnout was tremendous, people were spilling out the door.

"There is a lot of anger and bitterness in the village over this.

"There were a lot of objections to these plans for a lot of reasons, the village is saturated.

"Emergency services can't get along Church Road and Causeway Road and coming from this development you'll have more than 200 cars.

"The schools can't cope now.

"We understand people need houses but there are other places.

"We have to stop this development; it's going to be a difficult process but we need to do something."

Plans were revealed in February for 100 homes to be built in the field behind the village's Royal British Legion.

Planning applications have been lodged with Allerdale council for this development, four homes at Hillside, Camerton Road, and five homes north of Camerton Road.

Plans include a mixture of two, three, four and five-bedroom houses, arranged as a mix of detached, semi-detached and short terraces.

Part of the Royal British Legion would be demolished to create access to the new site and the club's car park relocated.

At Monday's parish council meeting, villagers and councillors expressed concerns that the developments would exacerbate traffic problems in Church Road, increase flood risk in Barepot and that schools could not cope with the influx of children.