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News Tories start petition against development A news article on the website of the Bristol and South Gloucestershire Conservatives states: “A developer has proposed building 2,000 new houses on the existing Woodlands Golf Course. This is protected Green Belt land and this proposed new development could not only lead to the destruction of natural wildlife habitats, but also traffic chaos on our already congested roads. Local councillors from across Bradley Stoke and South Gloucestershire’ alongside Jack Lopresti MP, have launched a petition calling for the housing developers to think again.” Local Conservative councillors John Ashe and Roger Avenin have also recorded a video titled “Woodlands Golf Course – Save Our Green Belt” in which they urge people to join their campaign to “Save Woodlands Golf Course from being concreted over”.
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July/August 2018
Statement issued on behalf of South West Strategic Developments Ltd on a potential ‘garden village’ development on the Woodlands Golf Club site The West of England Combined Authority is currently progressing a Joint Spatial Plan (JSP) which will be subject to an Examination in Public led by a government inspector, likely to commence in the autumn. The JSP will determine where large scale development will be delivered over the next 20 years. We consider that Woodlands Golf Club is a suitable location for such development as it is in a highly accessible and sustainable location adjacent to the M4/M5 junction in South Gloucestershire. It is close to thousands of jobs in the nearby business parks as well as everyday facilities that lie within walking distance; existing public transport links to Bristol city centre are also readily available. South West Strategic Developments Ltd (SWSD) are proposing the Woodlands Golf Club site as an ideal opportunity to deliver a ‘garden village’ style development that would provide much needed open market and affordable housing, as well as new community and employment facilities and extensive parkland within the development itself. Large scale cycle infrastructure would be provided linking to existing nearby employment hubs including Aztec West, while the development would utilise the public transport infrastructure improvements already being implemented. Woodlands Golf Club therefore, in our view, represents a more sustainable location for the necessary new homes than other sites currently proposed in the draft JSP. For instance, proposals for new homes by expansion of more distant and peripheral locations, such as at Buckover and Charfield, will change the characters of those settlements completely, be primarily reliant on private car travel and require high levels of additional infrastructure links. They will therefore generate significantly higher CO2 emissions compared to the Woodlands Golf Club Site which can readily utilise existing transport links and provides much greater possibilities for non-car transport. The Woodlands Golf Club site would therefore be entirely compliant with the Climate Change Act whilst other large housing sites may not. At the current time, Woodlands Golf Club is put forward as an option for the government-appointed JSP inspector to consider during the examination process as an alternative, or in addition, to those sites currently proposed. Should matters progress further in the future and the site be selected as a potential location for growth, SWSD would seek to work with the local community and South Gloucestershire Council to evolve a ‘garden village’ masterplan, through comprehensive public consultation.
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