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.

RSS - countryside under threat?

Gail overlooking the Newton Park campus at Newton St Loe - where thousands of houses could be built if the government gets its way.

News that Baker Associates have put in a planning application for over 9,000 new homes south of Bristol before the RSS has been ratified have worried local residents in the three areas of search in B&NES.

They are the south of Whitchurch, Newton St Loe and South Stoke. The Government Regional Spatial Strategy has been put on hold while there is a legal wrangle but developers are already in discussion about building new homes.

Council officers are hoping to consult residents in the autumn about proposed new areas for development. Residents are advised to look out for this or for any planning applications so that they can put forward objections or design suggestions. These might include energy efficiency measures, allotment provision, pay areas, community halls or landscape.

Contact campaign group Save our Green Spaces for more information: www.saveourgreenspaces.org