As work progresses apace on Cotswolds Designer Outlet plans have been revealed to add a five-storey car park and more retail units to the site.

Exclusive new drone footage obtained by Punchline shows the scale of the development and what it will feel like to visit the retail hub.

Phase One is due to open in Spring 2025 with 136,000 sqft of space spread over 56 shops.

The once green farmland which sits near J9 of the M5 and the A46 in Ashchurch is now full of steel and timber frames.

Phase Two will see around another 40 units created totalling 50,000sqft and work is forging ahead to bring them forward.

Developer Robert Hitchins Limited has now submitted proposals asking Tewkesbury Borough Council for permission to alter the design.

The series of four planning applications seek to replace a 364-space temporary carpark on the eastern side of the site with more retail units and add a new five-storey car park comprising 609 car parking spaces on the south of the site.

A statement by Rappor on behalf of the applicant said: "The main car park and the temporary car park to the east saw a total quantum of 899 car parking spaces, including 33 accessible spaces.

"Through the new multi-storey car park and some modifications to the main car park, the total quantum of car parking spaces encompassing the main car park and the multi-storey car park equates to 988 spaces, including the aforementioned 33 accessible spaces as well as 26 spaces for staff."

It said the proposed changes were "suitable to accommodate the proposed development."

Several objections have been submitted to the plans.

One said: "The development of a five storey slab sided multi storey car park is out of keeping with the area and other housing developments that are progressing to the south and south east of the site.

"Residents approaching from Fiddington development will be presented with the view of a great slab sided blockhouse looming up right next to the road."

They added: "As the parking provision is currently satisfactory I urge the planning authorities to reject the application to change car park into retail space as this has led to the developer perceiving a shortfall in the parking places available and submitting applications for a multi storey car park on the site."

Another objection said: "Is this a joke? This is a total disgrace! What gives Robert Hitchins the right to try and make such drastic changes to what is already a blot on the landscape."

Another said adding a five-storey car park would "completely change the nature of this outlet."

They added: This is not an inner city area and developers should be looking at sympathetic ways of enhancing this development instead of changing the goal posts after the original planning application was passed to create a monstrosity not in keeping with the area."

National Highways has also raised some concerns about areas of the plans and said they should not be permitted until they are addressed.

It has questioned the boundary of the site and said: "When comparing the development layout plan and google street view, it looks like some of the temporary fence has been positioned quite close to the A46. Whereas the layout plan indicates an approximately 10m distance between the A46 and the red line boundary. Could the applicant provide some clarity on the extent of the development?"

It also said plants proposed for the A46 boundary were not appropriate and it needs more detail of the drainage.

A decision on the applications is expected by September 4.