Residents facing "misery", "despair" and "torment" from lorries travelling past their village homes will have their bank holiday respite preserved.
The operator of a waste recycling facility in Nursling saw its request to allow a limited number of HGV movements on these days rejected.
The decision by members of Hampshire County Council's regulatory committee could scupper Collard Group Ltd's hopes of securing a contract with Southampton City Council over commercial waste.
Councillors went against the recommendation of officers to refuse the application to vary a condition of the existing planning permission for the Nursling Recycling Facility site in Lee Lane.
Cllr Stephen Parker said: "The applicant has been offered a contract provided they get that condition in the interests of residents changed, so we are being asked to facilitate that contract at the expense of the residents.
"I'm not happy with that."
Collard asked to vary the hours of working to allow up to six HGV in movements and six HGV out movements on public holidays, not including Christmas Day and Boxing Day.
This change was needed to allow the company to meet the requirements of a contract it was looking to secure with Southampton City Council, the committee heard.
Access to the site from the M27 was along the M271 and then via Andes Road, Eston Lane, Station Road and onto Lee Lane.
In Station Road vehicles pass housing located close to the edge of the highway.
The application received objections from residents, a local residents' association, Romsey Town Council, Nursling and Rownhams Parish Council and Romsey Rural division councillor Nick Adams-King.
Alison Fisher, secretary of Old Nursling Residents' Association (ONRA) and parish councillor, said she heard first-hand how "beleaguered" residents of Station Road have become.
Cllr Fisher said: "I hear words like distress, misery, despair, intolerable, torment. These are emotive words.
"We can't use the front of our houses. We can't open the windows during the day. Our whole house shakes."
Cllr Philip Bundy, chair of the parish council and borough council ward representative for Chilworth, Nursling and Rownhams, said no justification had been given for why the HGV movements were needed on public holidays.
Agent Chris Muir, speaking on behalf of the applicant, said the proposals involved apportioning a limited number of the site's already approved vehicle movements to bank holidays.
Mr Muir said: "A maximum of six in and six out vehicle movements are proposed over an eight-hour period, 9am to 5pm, on bank holidays, excluding Christmas Day and Boxing Day.
"The movements on bank holidays are needed to facilitate the commercial waste collection arrangements of the local authority.
"Many local authorities collect waste on bank holidays."
Members of the committee voted 12 in favour of refusing the application, with two voting against and one abstention.
Cllr Stephen Philpott said: "It is not a matter for this committee to consider the desires and commercial arrangements of a particular organisation.
"Our responsibility is not just to the residents but also to our own policies."
Cllr Fran Carpenter said she understood the concerns of residents but on balance she supported the application when looking at the bigger picture.
Cllr David Harrison said: "For me the most important thing about this is that the concerns, the impact on residents who live in Nursling, who already suffer from lorry movements almost every day of the week.
"I think they deserve a little bit of respite and they do get some respite as a result of some Sundays and bank holidays."
Speaking after the meeting, Cllr Bundy told the Local Democracy Reporting Service: "I am very pleased on behalf of residents in Station Road that at least they will get some respite by not having vehicles travelling past their front doors on public holidays."