Plans to turn a family home into seven bedsits on a “cramped” estate in Stoke Gifford have been refused by councillors against the advice of officers despite warnings of a costly appeal. Councillors justified their decision on the grounds that a parking survey provided insufficient information because it took place in July when all the students who rent flats in the area and their cars were away.
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A planning application from a company part-owned 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 after they raised concerns over the potential for harm to priority habitats, landscape character, trees and protected species.
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A new vehicular access point directly off Hatchet Road could soon be created into the site of the former Co-operative food store near Parkway Station after a planning inspector allowed an appeal against a council committee’s decision to refuse permission. [Editor’s note: This is an extended version of an earlier website article that was published on the day of the inspector’s decision.]
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A new vehicular access point directly off Hatchet Road could soon be created into the site of the former Co-operative food store near Parkway Station after a planning inspector allowed an appeal against a council committee’s decision to refuse permission.
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The project to build a new mixed-use development comprising of an Aldi supermarket, a Costa drive-through and a Premier Inn hotel on land at Fox Den Road, Stoke Gifford, has taken some small steps forward over the summer.
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A building firm part-owned by furniture maker IKEA has submitted plans to build 50 low-cost, sustainable homes at a site just off the Stoke Gifford By-Pass. BoKlok specialises in homes that are assembled from three-dimensional timber-frame modules that are manufactured off-site.
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An appeal has been lodged against the local planning authority’s decision to refuse permission for the creation of a new vehicular access point directly off Hatchet Road into the site of the former Co-operative food store near Parkway Station.
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Stoke Gifford residents look set to have a new Aldi supermarket and a Costa drive-through on the doorstep within two years after plans for a new mixed-use development were given the green light. The development site is on a large vacant plot of land behind the existing Sainsbury’s store at Fox Den Road.
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Officers at South Glos Council have recommended approval of a planning application for a new mixed-use development on vacant land to the rear of Sainsbury’s in Stoke Gifford. The application has been submitted by property developers Baylis Estates Ltd, joint owners of The Mall at Cribbs Causeway,
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Councillors have refused planning permission for the creation of a new vehicular access point directly off Hatchet Road into the site of the former Co-operative food store near Parkway Station. The decision was made despite the council’s professional planning officers recommending that the application be approved.
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