Local Plan Consultation

“On 5 February 2018 South Gloucestershire Council announced a consultation on its revised Local Plan. This follows the earlier consultation on the West of England Joint Spatial Strategy and is intended to take forward its proposals for strategic development locations along with smaller developments in the towns and villages of South Gloucestershire. It includes the plan for a major new housing development within Iron Acton Parish (the North West Yate Strategic Development Location). The consultation will run from 5 February to 30 April.

You can find the details at this link www.southglos.gov.uk/newlocalplanfeb2018 We will provide further details shortly of how the proposals are likely to affect Iron Acton Parish.”

Headline – 1000-2000 home planning decision being considered which would create a large housing estate on the east end of Iron Acton Parish affecting Yate Road, Nibley lane, Bridge Road, Hope Road & Dyers Lane

There is a very impactive planning consultation by SGC with a deadline of 10th January 2018. This is about SGC working together with Bath & NE Somerset, Bristol and North Somerset, to provide for a total of 105,000 homes over the next 20 years. They have already effectively decided that this means SGC building 32,500 homes which in turn means they want to build 1000-2000 of them in our parish.

The issue has been slightly confused by the fact that the ‘here’ that they have described is being called ‘North West Yate’ – the bombshell is that actually this means a large part of Iron Acton parish, covering North Road round westwards and southwards to Nibley and swallowing up large tracts of Dyers Lane, Yate Road up to the village side of the Esso garage and halfway along Nibley Lane as far as the river Frome.