Greenbelt The Greenbelt is still threatened. There is little indication that the Regional Spatial Strategy for the West of England is taking much notice of lobbying to preserve the greenbelt.

The recently published Strategic Geenbelt Review indicates provision for 92,500 new dwellings in the Greater Bristol area. Some 37,000 of these will be in “new urban extensions”, aka Green Belt. Note that the rest will include some built on existing green fields in places like Harry Stoke and Emerson's Green. Green Belt incursions are indicated for the following areas:

• Harry Stoke (N Bristol)
• Wick/Marshfield (NE Bristol)
• Whitchurch (SE Bristol)
• Highbridge/Barrow Common (SW Bristol)
• Odd Down (SW Bath)
• In addition, Bristol Airport is listed as a reason for altering the Green Belt to the North of it.

Council leaders representing us on the Regional Spatial Strategy committee have not necessarily agreed to any changes here, so there is yet be time to influence them: write to your council leader today! For us in South Gloucestershire, this is

         Cllr Ruth Davies
         The Council Offices
         Castle Street
         Thornbury
         BS35 1HF

Of course, as well as Green Belt defined land, there will be a huge amount of building on other green field sites. And then there will be the traffic generated by this building, and the roads to be built to accommodate this traffic. The future for a the Bristol area is not a pleasant one if this goes ahead.

For a full report on our position, and our proposals for an alternative, see our report (also available in pdf for printing (450KB})

See also our Housing Campaign page

Jon B

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