MOBILE home owners have hit out at plans for a nearby ‘mini power station’ that would include 40ft long generators.

Foxhall Manor Park users said the units would disrupt life at the nearby park, which has 350 residents.

A planning application has been made to South Oxfordshire District Council for three generators at the Booker warehouse in Basil Hill Road, Didcot.

Electricity firm PeakGen said it would only install two generators, to be used as a back-up power source.

Judith Donelan, 62, of Crossville Crescent, said: “It will be like a mini power station.

“There is no need for them to go there and it is going to have an impact on the people living there when we come to sell our homes.

“It is another blight on the landscape. There will be the noise, the vibration and the fumes.”

Kevin Maddaford of Lyndene Road, said: “The proposal to site three generators and other equipment so close to a residential area is a complete disregard for our quality of life.”

Former town mayor Terry Joslin, of Oxford Crescent, said: “It is ugly, unneighbourly and unfriendly and seriously diminishes the amenity of the area.

“The unit is only 30 metres from the closest resident in Foxhall Manor Park . There will be a risk of noise, vibration, air pollution, and odours.”

He said residents already suffer from railway noise.

Park manager Paul Heast said: “My first concern is the potential noise nuisance in what is normally a quiet area.”

Luke Blewett, environmental health officer at SODC, said the plans should be thrown out.

He said: “We have serious concerns that industrial generators at this site would seriously affect the enjoyable use of nearby domestic properties.”

PeakGen chief executive Mark Draper said there would only be two, three-metre high generators. He said: “These are there to provide an essential service, keeping the lights on and essential services running, when everything else is not able.”