Villagers are campaigning against plans to store 6,500 new cars on an old airfield.

They fear that many car transporters will be driven in and out of the 30-acre site at the former Second World War airfield at Finmere, on the Oxfordshire/ Buckinghamshire border near Bicester.

Residents in Finmere, Tingewick, Little Tingewick and Barton Hartshorn have formed the Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Campaign Against Airfield Development (BOXCAARD).

Mainland Car Deliveries, of Chipping Warden, near Banbury, has applied to Aylesbury Vale District Council for permission to store 6,582 cars on part of the airfield.

It was estimated that 57 transporters would visit the site every day, as well as 60 employees' cars.

Campaign chairman, Charley Grimston, said: "Transporter movements and light pollution are our initial concerns. We will be calling in experts to go into the proposal in greater depth."

Finmere Parish Council chairman, Ian MacPherson, said: "The site will be near the weekly Sunday market and a go-kart circuit. The access to the site will be off the busy roundabout on the Bicester-Buckingham road close to Finmere."

Cherwell district councillor Barry Wood said: "There is concern over sporadic development in the countryside. The site will be lit at night with lamps on poles about 12ft high and they could cause pollution over part of Finmere."

Patrick Downs, planning director of Mainland's consultants, Harris Lamb of Birmingham, said: "The traffic movements would be seven to eight an hour, which is roughly equivalent to what about 10 houses would generate. The lights will be designed to shine onto the site, so there will be no light spillage outside and on to Finmere homes. "

Cherwell councillors are expected to discuss the plan on November 28. It will go before Aylesbury Vale councillors on January 2.