Plans to demolish a bungalow at 93 North Parade in Falmouth and replace it with three self-contained apartments, are again being opposed by neighbouring residents and town councillors.

The proposals went before the town council's planning committee last week when councillors were told they were the third set of plans to have been submitted for the site - the previous ones have been refused.

Mr and Mrs Perkins, whose mother lives next to the existing bungalow, said: "Each plan that comes along has gone higher and higher. We are now looking at a four storey block although there are only three flats in it. Mum's bungalow will be in the middle of two cliff faces."

Their mother, Mrs H Perkins, has written an objection to Cornwall Council, saying: "The redesign of number 93 is now karger and higher at hte Dracaena side than the two previous proposals and now will dwarf my bungalow and back garden so much so that I doubts that very much sunshine will be seen through the winter and spring and much less in summer than at present."

The Falmouth and Penryn Conservation Committee and Falmouth Civic Society also object, claiming the scheme would be overdevelopment and unneighbourly.

Councillor Steve Eva said: "I can understand why they would want to replace the building, it looks tired, but the impact on neighbours would be unacceptable. This is bigger and more offensive than the other one was."

The committee is recommending Cornwall Council refuse the application on the grounds of over-massing, overdevelopment, its unneighbourliness and that it would change the street scene.