Another developer-driven option? - 8th Dec '09

Liberal Democrats, worried about B&NES proposals to build in the AONB in South Stoke, invited MEP Graham Watson to visit Bath and North East Somerset constituencies.

While he was in South Stoke he was keen to sign the petition alongside Cllr Butters, Gail Coleshill and Louise Bray.

Gail Coleshill, who will be standing against Labour and Conservative at the next Election, say this is another example of a developer driven housing option:

“I recently learnt that the landowner has invited Councillors to view the land he is offering in the AONB for house building in an attempt to persuade them to include it in the Core Strategy.

We believe as do the residents that housing development in Bath should be restricted to the known brown-field sites within the city and that the special landscape setting outside the city should be left alone.

And there are better alternatives to the south of the District.”

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Local Pressure leads to extension of Core Strategy Consultation - 3rd Dec '09

Local Lib Dem Gail Coleshill is pleased by the Council’s decision to extend the deadline for submissions to the Core Strategy Consultation to the 15th of January.

“I have been supporting residents in Newton St Loe, South Stoke, and Whitchurch who are fighting Developer led plans to build massive new housing estates on Green belt land.”

“Conversely local business leaders in the Norton Radstock area would like to see more land allocated for businesses and housing with the appropriate infrastructure. Their ideas are backed by officers to some extent but always qualified by lack of Government money for infrastructure and transport routes."

Local campaigners in Newton St Loe say that a massive housing estate between them and Twerton would lead to massive increases in traffic on the A4, massive infrastructure problems, and a massive intrusion into the setting of the Newton Park and World Heritage city, Bath. They say:

“NO TO NEW TOWN ST LOE”

Photo showing Newton St Loe campaigners with local Lib Dem supporters.
Front left to right Cllr Neil Butters, Louise Bray, Cllr Sarah Bevan, Gail Coleshill, Cllr Nathan Hartley and local campaigner Jo Tinworth
Keynsham Town Cllrs Roger Clark, far left, and Tony Crouch right of Jo Tinworth, also joined the protest.