Parish councillors have slammed controversial plans by a family of 11 gipsies to extend their caravan site in South Staffordshire green belt land for the second time in a year.

Brewood and Coven Parish Council last night voted to recommend that South Staffordshire Council rejects plans to add four extra caravans, fences and day rooms to the site off the A449 Stafford Road, in Coven Heath.

Father-of-eight Richard Dunne won a six year High Court campaign to keep his caravans on the green belt in 2009 – before controversially winning a bid to extend it by constructing permanent buildings last November.

Brewood councillor Moira Alden-Court last night dismissed the plans as “dangerous” because of poor access to the site at Brinsford Bridge. “This is a dangerous road, with limited access, and I am surprised there hasn’t been a major accident before now,” she said.

“Four more caravans would overpopulate the site and the plans should be refused.”

She added that Mr Dunne has failed to abide by conditions of previous planning consent which ordered him to limit the number of spotlights on the site.

Dr Richard Taylor, the council’s head of planning, said: “If there was no mention of the word gipsy in this application and it was simply an application to build four homes in green belt, close to a dangerous road, then it would be refused straight away. This should not be any different.”

The application comes after South Staffordshire Council was told it will need to provide 42 new pitches for caravans by 2017. The council has an interim policy on travellers’ sites which states those already in existence should not be extended, while new applications will be looked on more favourably if they are close to the A5 corridor.

In 2008 Mr Dunne and wife Chavelle won their High Court battle with the district council allowing them to keep their caravans on the green belt land.

In November last year the Dunnes – who bought the site for £17,000 in 2002 – were then controversially given permission to build a permanent kitchen, bathroom and day room at the site.

Members had been warned by planning officers that they would lose the fight against the family if they refused permission for the building.