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March/April 2021
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Work starts on 327-home development on land just east of Stoke Gifford
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treams of soil-laden tipper trucks passing through Bradley Stoke and construction activity at Parkway North Roundabout at the northern end of the Stoke Gifford By-Pass are signs that work has now begun in earnest on a 327-home development site on the borders of Bradley Stoke and Stoke Gifford. The site, which is being marketed under the name ‘Mulgrove Farm Village’, lies south of the Winterbourne Road (i.e. on the opposite side to the Winter Stream Farm pub restaurant) and north of the main railway line. It forms part of the planned East of Harry Stoke New Neighbourhood where a total of 2,000 homes are to be built over the next seven or more years. The current work is being carried out by Churngold on behalf of Wainhomes Severn Valley, who last year acquired part of the site from Crest Nicholson in a £38 million deal. The remainder of the site, around the now demolished Mulgrove Farm buildings, is in the ownership of South Gloucestershire Council. In November 2018, Crest Nicholson secured full permission for a site-wide earthworks strategy and the construction of 150 homes on its part of the site. Outline permission was also granted for 177 homes on the council-owned
Work at Parkway North Roundabout
land, along with a primary school and nursery. The council recently revealed that it is to explore the possibility of delivering the other 177 homes on the site via a joint venture with another developer. As the land on the site consists of a domed-shaped hill, extensive earthworks are required to create a level plateau to enable development. These earthworks comprise levelling the site at its highest point and infilling areas on the lower slopes, a process which requires the excavation of 200,000 cubic metres of material. Councillors who approved the 2018 planning application were told that all excavated material would be relocated on site, with “no requirement to import or export material“. However, new site owner Wainhomes later submitted revised plans as part of the ‘discharge of conditions’ process, indicating a need to transport 20,000 cubic metres of earth off site. Council officers deemed the new plans acceptable after “assessing them against the original reasons for imposing conditions, as well as planning policy and guidance”. The work that has started in recent weeks at Parkway North is to create a new arm off the roundabout to form one of two permanent access roads into the development. The other access point will be on Old Gloucester Road.
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