Campaign Against Urban Sprawl

Visit the Better Bath Forum

Jake — Thu, 01 May 2008 09:11:04 +0000

Tell B&NES council your views on how expansion of Bath can be managed without spoiling the city:

Better Bath Forum (www.betterbath.org.uk)

Our Response to the Core Strategy Consultation

Jake — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 12:30:22 +0000

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Respond to B&NES Core Strategy by 17 Dec 2007

Jake — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 09:57:58 +0000

Have your say before it’s too late! Please respond to plans which could put thousands of acres of countryside under threat from new housing developments.It is crucial that the public respond to B&NES’s Core Strategy Launch document, which is now under public consultation.The Core Strategy will become the main planning blueprint for B&NES until 2026. It outlines plans to build 1,000 new homes on green belt land around the villages of Englishcombe and Newton St Loe, and another 6000 new homes around Whitchurch and between Bristol and Keynsham.Write to:Planning policy,Planning Services,Trimbridge house,Trim Street,BathBA1 4DPor email planning_policy@bathnes.gov.uk giving the subject title ‘Response to Core Strategy Consultation’.B&NES’s ‘Core Strategy Launch Document’ can be found on-line at www.bathnes.gov.uk/corestrategy by clicking on ‘Imagine Bath and North East Somerset in 2026’.For a printed copy, tel: 01225 477548.

Core Strategy Consultation Ends

Jake — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 09:41:26 +0000

December 17, 2007
5:00 pm

B&NES’s Core Strategy runs until 17th December 2007. The public should write to:

Planning policy,
Planning Services,
Trimbridge house,
Trim Street,
Bath
BA1 4DP

or email planning_policy@bathnes.gov.uk giving the subject title ‘Response to Core Strategy Consultation’.

B&NES’s ‘Core Strategy Launch Document’ can be found on-line at www.bathnes.gov.uk/corestrategy by clicking on ‘Imagine Bath and North East Somerset in 2026’.

For a printed copy, tel: 01225 477548.

Press Release: Campaigners urgent call for public to respond to council’s future housing plans

Jake — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 09:33:07 +0000

‘Have your say before it’s too late’ – that’s the message from The Campaign Against Urban Sprawl (CAUS), which is calling on the public to respond to plans which will put could put thousands of acres of countryside under threat from new housing developments.The campaigners say that it is crucial that the public respond to B&NES’s Core Strategy Launch document, which is now under public consultation.The Core Strategy will become the main planning blueprint for B&NES until 2026. It outlines plans to build 1,000 new homes on green belt land around the villages of Englishcombe and Newton St Loe, and another 6000 new homes around Whitchurch and between Bristol and Keynsham.Core Strategy Press Release

Planners drop the bombshell

Jake — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 16:51:20 +0000

Planners at Bath and North East Somerset Council dropped the bombshell last week as they launched their new Core Strategy which will shape how the district will look in the next 20 years.

The plans outline more than 15,000 new homes that will be built in Bath and North East Somerset before 2026. Of those, planning chiefs will recommend that 6,000 are built within Bath itself, half of which are already earmarked at the huge Western Riverside site, on brownfield land. They also want about 1,500 homes built on green belt land to the south and west of the city, around the picturesque village of Englishcombe, close to Bath Spa University.

But it is on the edge of Bristol that the bulk of the development will come. Planners want another 6,000 homes, effectively a new town, built between Whitchurch and Stockwood on the edge of Bristol and Keynsham, partly on green belt land. Another 2,000 homes will be dotted around the rest of the district, with Midsomer Norton and Radstock a favoured location.

But a spokesman from Campaign to Protect Rural England attacked the decision.

“We are strongly opposed to the proposals for future housing development in the environs of Bath. We believe that neither of these plans is tenable in view of the need to protect the environs of Bath as an integral part of the city’s World Heritage status.

“This means more than 10,000 acres of Avon countryside disappearing under houses. There will be even more land taken for schools, shopping malls, roads, industrial estates and other infrastructure. If this is allowed to go ahead, large areas of our countryside will be lost for ever. Such developments will add more traffic to the already congested local roads and sow seeds for social and other future problems.”

Protest Against the Planning White Paper

Jake — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 19:22:23 +0000

www.planningdisaster.co.uk

Friends of the Earth is running its own campaign. Find out more and take action.

Council Letter Outlines Strategy

Jake — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 19:04:07 +0000

We’ve received the following letter from Cllr Charles Gerrish on behalf of B&NES Council:

Letter from B&NES Council

Public must act now or lose local voice on major new developments

Jake — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 19:12:18 +0000

The public must act now before they lose their right to have a meaningful say on where new developments are built.

Many individuals and organisations, including CPRE, Friends of the Earth, RSPB, Transport 2000 and the National Trust, are calling on the public to protest against the Planning White Paper before it’s too late and individuals are left with no voice on where airport runways, new roads, large incinerators, nuclear power stations, major industries and supermarkets are sited.

Visit www.planningdisaster.co.uk to find out more and how to take action. Friends of the Earth is running its own campaign.

Campaign Launch

susan — Mon, 14 May 2007 21:21:04 +0000

“New campaign warns of threat to countryside as region’s house-building plans go under the spotlight” 16 May 2007