A council computer glitch has seen objectors to plans for 3,000 new homes swamped with unwanted letters.
Letters are being sent to each of the 4,379 people who objected to the Hampden Fields plan, which proposes building between Bedgrove and Weston Turville.
However, some residents have received multiple copies of the same letter, with one household reportedly getting 30.
Aylesbury Vale District Council said a technical issue meant some people who had objected to the original Hampden Fields plan and the revised plan, submitted late last year, had received two letters, one for each objection.
However, this does not explain why some people have got so many.
One Weston Turville resident said: “There’s only two of us here who objected. If the problem is as they say we should have got four letters at the most, but we got nine.
“The postman said he had just been to a house where he delivered 30 identical letters.
“They’re not addressed to anyone, it just says ‘to the occupier’.
“It’s such a waste of money. Next thing we’ll get a letter saying how much the council tax has gone up.”
Another resident said: “I am incredulous. The postman has just delivered 10 identical letters. I’m lost for words. They wasted postage money on us, how many more people had the same number of letters and how much money has the council wasted?”
The council apologised to households that have received extra letters, saying the problem had been identified before all the letters were sent out. It is not known at this stage how many letters were sent by mistake or the cost of the error.
Although the Planning Inspectorate has agreed to hear the applicants’ appeal over the Hampden Fields plan, the council’s planning committee must still meet to discuss and vote on the plan. This meeting is due to take place on April 10.
The Hampden Fields consortium applied for non-determination by the council because it wants the plan to be heard by an inspector at the same time as the appeal to build 2,745 homes in Fleet Marston, a proposal which was originally thrown out by councillors.
