Detailed plans for a further 143 homes along the Stoke Gifford By-Pass have been approved by officers at South Gloucestershire Council. Submitted by Crest Nicholson, the application relates to Phases 2.1, 2.2a & 2.2b of the developer’s ‘South of the Railway’ site, which has outline planning permission for a total of 1,290 homes, a local centre, community facilities, landscaping and open space.
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A wildlife ‘superhighway’ has been installed at a new housing development on the north-eastern fringe of Stoke Gifford to ensure the amphibian residents feel right at home. Housebuilder Wain Homes installed the £100,000 bespoke pair of tunnels underneath the entrance road to Mulgrove Farm Village (near Parkway North Roundabout) in a joint project with South Glos Council.
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Local housebuilder Crest Nicholson recently partnered with St Michael’s Primary School, Stoke Gifford, on a ‘walking bus’ initiative as part of Walk to School Week. Pupils, parents, guardians, carers, teachers and staff of the school took part in two walking buses on Thursday 18th May, that began at Crest Nicholson’s Highbrook View and Brooklands Park developments in Harry Stoke.
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Plans to build a 315-place (1.5 forms of entry) primary school on the Brooklands Park housing development in Harry Stoke could be scrapped, if the recommendations of a recent officer report are accepted by South Gloucestershire Council. The move would lead to some children having to travel up to 2 miles to attend existing schools in adjacent areas.
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Detailed plans for Phase 2 of the Mulgrove Farm Village housing development on land east of Stoke Gifford have been submitted by Wain Homes. The latest ‘reserved matters’ planning application is for a further 162 homes on land in the south-east of the site that is still in the ownership of South Gloucestershire Council.
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Wain Homes has opened the doors to three show homes at its Mulgrove Farm Village development in Stoke Gifford, where 150 dwellings are being constructed. The site forms part of the planned East of Harry Stoke New Neighbourhood where a total of 2,000 homes are to be built in the coming years. Access to the site is off Parkway North Roundabout.
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Anyone using the Stoke Gifford By-Pass, Hambrook Lane or Old Gloucester Road in recent months will have noticed a marked increase in construction activity as housing developers have begun creating access points into areas designated for the building of more than 1,600 new homes.
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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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Streams of soil-laden tipper trucks passing through Bradley Stoke and construction activity at Parkway North Roundabout at the northern end of the Stoke Gifford By-Pass are signs that work has now begun in earnest on a 327-home development site on the borders of Bradley Stoke and Stoke Gifford.
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Housebuilder Crest Nicholson has submitted its first ‘reserved matters’ (detailed) planning application for the East of Harry Stoke (EoHS) New Neighbourhood, where 2,000 homes are expected to be built over the next six years. This first phase of the development will be marketed under the name ‘Lower Hambrook’.
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