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May 2022
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About the Stoke Gifford Journal The Stoke Gifford Journal magazine is published by North Bristol Press, a trading name of Snowberry Media Ltd; company number 8451178 (registered in England and Wales); registered office: 33 The Courtyard, Woodlands, Bradley Stoke, Bristol, BS32 4NQ. Our other publications include the Bradley Stoke Journal magazine and website, the Patchway Journal website and the Filton Journal website. North Bristol Press is independent of any other media company or network operating in the Bristol area. We accept no responsibility for anything stated by advertisers, who are themselves responsible for complying with all relevant legislation. Opinions expressed are not necessarily those of the editor or article author. © North Bristol Press 2022. Content published in our magazines or on our websites may not be reproduced in any form without our express written permission.
Have your say: Reader letters
planning application from a company partowned by IKEA to build 48 low-cost modular homes at a site just off the Stoke Gifford By-Pass has been refused permission by officials at South Gloucestershire Council. BoKlok, a partnership between IKEA and construction company Skanska, specialises in homes that are assembled from threedimensional timber-frame modules that are manufactured off-site. The modules are fully fitted out, internally and externally, before being transported to site for assembly. The modular production process results in a reduced number of site deliveries, by up to 80 percent, and a faster build programme, by as much as 50 percent compared to traditional methods. Overall, the carbon footprint of production using this method is said to be less than half that of comparable traditional build projects. The application site is a 1.81-hectare plot at Hoodlands
Farm, which lies about 100m east of the Stoke Gifford By-Pass, between the railway bridge and the Hambrook Lane junction (see map, below), within the emerging East of Harry Stoke (EoHS) New Neighbourhood. Thirty-one dwellings would be ‘open market’, 13 for social rent and 4 for shared ownership. The rectangular site is bordered on three sides (to the north, east and south) by land in the control of Crest Nicholson, who have planning consent for 1,290 new homes within the part of EoHS south of the railway. It was proposed that access would initially be via the existing Site location map
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