MORE than 2,000 new homes south of Westerleigh and 1,300 on sites around Yate and Chipping Sodbury are included in the latest planning blueprint for South Gloucestershire.
The development of 2,050 homes and 18 hectares of employment land has been named North Lyde Ecotech Village, and is included in the final version of the council’s Local Plan, which opened to public consultation on February 28.
As the Voice reported last month, the plan also proposes provision for 150 homes at Yate’s former tumble dryer factory, which closed last year, plus 200 in the town centre and 370 at Engine Common.
The plan also proposes allowing 300 homes to be built at Barnhill Quarry in Chipping Sodbury, along with sports pitches and “small scale employment” provision.
After the consultation the Local Plan, which allocates land for 22,500 homes and thousands of jobs between 2026 and 2041, will be sent to a government planning inspector for a public examination next year.
North Lyde Ecotech Village: 2,050 homes
The North Lyde Ecotech Village site is south of Westerleigh and the Kendleshire golf club, bounded by the M4, Westerleigh Road and the railway line serving the Westerleigh fuel depot at the eastern edge of the site.
Much of it is currently farmland but it also includes the Windmill Leisure Golf and Activity Centre, Windmill Fishery, South Gloucestershire Showground and Tulip abattoir.
A total of 2,050 homes have been proposed for the site; between 1,050 and 1,350 would be built before 2041 and the rest afterwards.
The development would include shops and cafes, a community centre, nursery, primary school, library, GP surgery and a central play park, with buildings up to six storeys tall.
The development has been named North Lyde as it is on the opposite side of the M4 to the Lyde Green estate, which is still being built.
Former Yate factory site: 150 homes
The Station Road site of the former Beko Europe factory (pictured top) is earmarked for 150 homes.
South Gloucestershire Council bought the site from Whirlpool in 2021 for just under £10 million, describing it as “of strategic importance for the town of Yate and South Gloucestershire”.
The latest version of the plan also says that another 200 homes can be accommodated in Yate Town Centre, with space for another 140 at Ladden Garden Village, 162 to the north of the new estate, and 10 at Cranleigh Court.
Just outside the town, sites either side of North Road towards Engine Common are earmarked for 370 homes, with a further 20 proposed at Holly Hill Farm, Iron Acton and 19 at Berrows Mead Rangeworthy.
Barhill Quarry: 300 homes
Four sites in Cromhall, where 106 homes were proposed, have been removed, as have four sites in Rangeworthy, where 178 homes had been proposed
The final draft of the Local Plan was set to open for public comments on February 28.
Full details will be found on the plan website, localplan.commonplace.is
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