REVISED plans for a £13m holiday village have been resubmitted - a month after councillors were told to reject the scheme.

Outline plans for 120 log cabins, five leisure lakes, wildlife reserves, a restaurant and a gym at the 112-acre site between Broken Stone Road, Feniscowles, and the M65 were submitted earlier this year. But Manchester-based developers Castleland Ltd withdrew the plans in September after it was recommended for refusal by Blackburn with Darwen Council.

Architects working for Michael Lewis, a surveyor and director for the firm, have now scaled down the leisure complex and car park for the scheme in a bid have planning permission granted.

A report to councillors previously concluded that the previous scheme was on too large a scale and would attract people other than residents to use the facilities.

And it was feared that the leisure complex would affect similar town centre facilities.

The revised plans have reduced the leisure complex from 1,800 square metres to 1,000 square metres and car parking spaces to 45 from 90.

Mr Lewis said: "Fundamentally, the proposal is much the same but there were concerns about the size of the leisure building for members and the fact that we wanted to make the facilities open to the public. That is what we wanted to address and I think we have come up with a very workable solution.

"Visually, it is a much more subtle design and the scale has been reduced so that it now caters solely for the owners of the lodges at the village.

"The planners were positive about the vast majority of the original proposal, but had voiced concerns that the leisure building was so large it would attract visitors to the site from other parts of the borough. We have listened to the officers carefully and our resubmission is designed specifically with those issues in mind.

"Our revised facility is designed to satisfy the requirements of the lodge owners - that's why we've also reduced the car parking allocation too, that way it will not impact on other leisure developments in the borough."

The site has been the centre of controversy after a previous owner dumped several hundred thousand tons of landfill after being given permission to create a golf course.

The plans are expected to be put before the planning committee in December.