Pleas from parish councillors and more than 80 neighbours to reject a plans for 24 homes have been ignored.

Councillors approved plans for listed building consent to construct a mix of two, three, four and five-bedroom homes at the Binfield House Nursery site.

After more than 90 minutes of debate Bracknell Forest Council’s planning committee finally agreed to approve the plans despite calls from 88 households, Binfield Village Protection Society (BVPS), Binfield Surgery and Binfield Parish Council to reject them.

As well as the permission to build the houses the applicant, Beaulieu Homes, was also granted listed building consent to alter a walled garden kitchen built before 1948.

A letter from Simon Butcher, chairman of BVPS, said the group was not opposed to development on the site in principle but said the application could be more “sympathetic”.

He wrote: “We object to the alterations proposed to the wall of the walled kitchen garden at Binfield House which was previously used as the Bracknell council’s nursery and to the proposed demolition of the gardeners’ out buildings attached to the wall, to make way for houses.

“The walled kitchen garden is within the curtilage of the Grade II Listed Binfield House and should be protected under this listing.”

The proposal for the site in Terrace Road North also attracted a number of complaints due to issues with the access point in Knox Green, a cul-de-sac just off of the main road.

A petition, signed by 60 concerned people living in the affected homes, was sent to Bracknell Forest Council calling for the application to be reconsidered.

The neighbours wrote: “We the residents of Knox Green, Binfield and environs object most strongly with the proposal by Beaulieu Homes to access and egress the proposed development on the former Binfield House Nursery (Application 13/00966/FUL), the existing Binfield House and the existing Binfield House bungalows through the first cul-de-sac in Knox Green.

“The current estate road is unsuitable for any additional traffic due to existing residents parking needs and the current dangerous junction with Terrace Road North.

“Access to this development must be through an improved existing access not knox green.”

As part of the council’s agreement a caveat stating no development, other than an access point and replacement parking for two of the homes in Knox Green, should start until access details had been approved in writing by planning officers.

To view the application and full list of conditions given by the council go to democratic.bracknell-forest.gov.uk/documents/s78408/5.%2013-00966-ful%20Binfield%20House%20Nursery%20Terrace%20Road.pdf.