CHRIS SKIDMORE SETS UP PETITION TO OPPOSE
BUILDING 450 HOUSES ON GREENBELT LAND IN
OLDLAND COMMON

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A planning application based on the Government's Regional Spatial Strategy has been recieved for an extra 450 houses to be built on green belt land on the edge of Oldland Common.

The planning application is to first to be presented in the county that uses Labour’s disastrous Regional Spatial Strategy that will see green belt land across South Gloucestershire built on with over 33,000 houses, with no extra help for improving local services.

The RSS was postponed in June and is currently being revised thanks to a legal challenge by Hertfordshire Conservatives which forced Labour to rethink imposing over 80,000 houses on the East of England.

Chris Skidmore, Prospective Conservative MP and Organiser of the No Way To 33k group which has called for the Regional Spatial Strategy to be abandoned said:

"We will fight this application and I have already begun a petition of local residents. But this application has been made on the back of the government's Regional Spatial Strategy, supported by local Labour MPs. Yet unless we axe this discredited and unaccountable Strategy, this will only be the first of many planning applications to come. It remains the greatest threat to our green belt and communities and must go if we are to save our green spaces."

Chris Skidmore has begun a petition of local residents, opposing the development. The planning application for 450 homes to be built on green belt land opposite Barry Road, Oldland Common is PK09/5056/O. Comments need to be with the Council by the end of August.

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