DEVELOPERS have put forward two solutions to remove toxic land from a controversial housing development site.

But Corsham residents living near the land at Pockeridge Farm and Peel Circus fear both solutions could be hazardous to their health.

Reports carried out for North Wiltshire District Council show acres of land earmarked for the distributor road as contaminated with asbestos and highly explosive picric acid.

White Young Green Environmental has submitted two applications to dispose of the asbestos.

North Wiltshire District Council officers will now have to decide which plan will be safest and most effective.

Planning officer Lachlan Robertson said the developers had looked at the contamination on the site and were now dealing with it in the appropriate manner.

"One way to deal with it would be to dig up the soil and take it away. Another solution would be to sieve it out and only take the contaminated soil," said Mr Robertson.

The decision will be made by NWDC and all documents will be open to public inspection at the council offices.

More than 500 people have signed a petition calling for the plans to be thrown out and the land left untouched.

MP James Gray has also joined the fight and expressed his fears over the former MoD site that used to house weapon making factories.

Planning officials deny the land poses any risk to the public.