SAVE OUR GREEN BELT!

Did you know that there are plans to build up to 100 thousand new homes in our area over the next 20 years? That would be the equivalent of a ‘new’ Bradley Stoke every 2 years - taking 10 to 20 square miles from our fast diminishing Green Belt. The destruction of the countryside caused by new housing would be further accelerated by the new roads which will need to be constructed to accommodate all the additional traffic.

There will be other impacts as well - the increased population will place additional demands on public, social and health services as well as imposing further loads on an already stretched infrastructure, including water and sewage systems.

South Gloucestershire Friends of the Earth and the Campaign to Protect Rural England are therefore holding an open meeting where local residents will be able to learn more about these proposals from Council representatives and hear the views of our Northavon MP Steve Webb on the longer term strategic plans for the area.

The meeting will take place at the Greenfield Centre, Park Avenue, Winterbourne at 7.30pm on Wednesday 30^th March so, if you are interested in the future development of South Gloucestershire, do come along and make your views known on the night.

Further information may be obtained from the South Gloucestershire FoE Coordinator, Denise Thompson (email denisethompso40@hotmail.com or telephone 01454 313048) or the South Gloucestershire CPRE Chairman Marilyn Palmer (email PalmerM@parliament.uk or telephone 01454-322100)