Residents on a rural estate aim to persuade councillors not to give the go-ahead to a huge regional distribution depot on their doorstep.

People from the secluded community of mobile homes in South Wiltshire anticipate the scheme would result in up to 80 lorry movements an hour from the proposed development on adjoining fields.

They also fear the 60-acre depot, which would operate 24 hours a day, seven days a week, would transform the roads network near Amesbury into Juggernaut Junction.

But council planning officers will on Thursday urge members to approve the plan for two warehouses with a combined size 95,000 square metres.

Solstice Park at Boscombe Down, alongside the A303 holiday route, has been earmarked for one of the largest relocation opportunities in southern England that will create up to 1,000 jobs.

The plan has been backed by Salisbury and District Chamber of Commerce which says it would have considerable employment benefits and help bring firms to the area.

Salisbury council has also received 65 objections from individuals, including many from anxious residents of Beverley Hills Park, a mobile homes community adjoining the development site.

People from the estate, which has been there for about 80 years, fear they will suffer excessive noise, vibrations, diesel fumes and light pollution. Secretary of the Beverley Hills Park Residents Association, Caroline Pollard, said their lives on what was a lovely place to live would be ruined if the plan went ahead.

She said in many cases, HGVs would be queuing to get in and out of the site.

She said: "It will have an appalling effect on people living here.

"The operation will equate to an unacceptable level of noise day and night."