House builder Crest Nicholson has submitted detailed plans for the first phase of its 1,200 home development on former green belt land at Harry Stoke. The application, for 166 dwellings, comes seven months after a masterplan for part of the development (phases 1 & 2 with parts of phases 3 & 5) was approved by South Gloucestershire Council (SGC), in
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A planning application for the construction of a University Technical College (UTC) on the site of the former Filton High School looks set to be submitted soon following a public consultation event held earlier this week. Funding for the a UTC to serve Bristol and South Gloucestershire was approved by the Government in October 2011 and South Gloucestershire Council has
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Stoke Gifford Parish Council has lodged an objection to Bristol Rovers’ plans to build a 21,700 seater stadium on land owned by the University of the West of England (UWE), near the new Cheswick Village housing development [map]. The Council discussed the football club’s planning application at a committee meeting on 27th March, where it was decided to object on
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City of Bristol College’s plan to build a new Engineering Department building on vacant land in front of Abbeywood Community School would lead to gridlock on local roads, according to local residents and school management. The College has applied for permission to make alterations to its existing Parkway Transport Technology Centre and erect a new building to house its aeronautics,
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A planning application to convert a vacant shop unit in Parsons Avenue into an Indian takeaway has attracted a mass of objections from concerned local residents. Formerly trading as the ‘Just Dogs’ grooming parlour, the unit has been empty for a number of months. It stands in a block of two units, the other being occupied by Shipway Gents’ Barbers.
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Members of a South Gloucestershire Council committee have voted to approve a controversial planning application from Hitachi Rail to build a train maintenance depot on land known as the ‘Filton Triangle’ in Stoke Gifford. The proposed depot, required as part of the project to electrify the main line between London and Cardiff, had been opposed by hundreds of Stoke Gifford
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District Councillors inspecting the site of a proposed 42 acre rail depot in Stoke Gifford were given a frosty reception from around 50 residents at a meeting in Sandringham Road last Friday (20th January). Hitachi Rail wants to build the depot on the Filton Triangle [map], an area of land bounded by railway lines to the west of Parkway Station,
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Local residents are being given the chance to address members of the South Gloucestershire committee that is considering a planning application to construct a rail maintenance depot on land adjacent to Sandringham Road in Stoke Gifford. Members of the public are invited to attend a ‘site meeting’ of South Gloucestershire Council’s Development Control (West) Committee outside 78 Sandringham Road [map]
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