David Wilson Homes want to be re-granted permission to build a mixture of 258 houses and apartments on a 7.7 hectare site fronting onto Gliwice Way and Lakeside Boulevard to the south of The Dome's car park.

But they have also re-submitted plans to develop 308 apartments on a smaller 'peninsula' area of land on the eastern side of the lake opposite Fewston Way and Langsett Court - a project which caused consternation amongst local residents and councillors when it was first outlined.

Both applications will go before the borough's planning committee next Tuesday at Mansion House (2pm) having been granted permission in March 2005 - but later thrown out by a judicial review after officers failed to follow official planning protocol.

The successful legal challenge, initiated by Dr Malcolm Cohen of Lakeside Boulevard, ensued after a special development control committee meeting of Doncaster Council, in September 2004, reversed a decision to reject the development of 432 flats on the 'peninsula' - sparking fury among several councillors.

A judicial review later threw the decision out because of a "technical discrepancy" as officers failed to state the reasons why the scheme had been passed at the second attempt.

Liberal Democrat councillor Paul Coddington, of the Bessacarr and Cantley ward, recalled the earlier planning applications.

"I wasn't in favour of the two previous applications because I felt there's enough building going on there anyway," he said. "We don't require any more.

"But key to all of this is the dualling of White Rose Way which I'm led to believe will be completed in 2010 at the earliest - so it's going to take time for anything to be completed."

Plans for the 'peninsula' involve the development of 308 apartments and associated car parking in four complexes, varying in height between two and four storeys with limited five storey elements.

Residents' objections to the earlier plan had included conerns about the loss of their lake view. The developers say that the re-submitted plan is for two-storey properties opposite the exisiting flats so that the lake view can be enjoyed from across the rooftops or through an open space that will be retained in the middle of the site.

Adjacent to The Dome car park - on a patch of land which backs onto Hall Cross School's playing fields - there are plans for 109 town houses, 85 detached houses, 50 apartments and 13 flats.