DEVELOPERS have unveiled more details of their schemes for large-scale housing near Kingswood.
Bloor Homes held a consultation last month over its proposals for about 950 homes at what is dubbed North Warmley new neighbourhood.
The plans are also set to include a local centre with shops, a café, workspaces, a nursery, and a “sustainable transport hub”.
Meanwhile, Waddeton Park has been talking to neighbours about its scheme for 310 homes East of High Street and Barry Road, Oldland Common.
The developers say they want to consider the opinions of local people before they oput in their outline applications for planning permission. Other housebuilders are expected to reveal proposals for other sites, including two large developments near Shortwood.
The sites, large parts of which are currently in the Green Belt, are all put forward for housebuilding in South Gloucestershire Council’s draft Local Plan, which sets out where more than 20,000 homes should be built across the district over the next 15 years.
Residents have had the chance to comment on the plan, which has been drawn up to meet government housing targets, and their views will be considered by a planning inspector next year.
A protest group called Save Our Green Spaces – South Gloucestershire has co-ordinated objections, which largely focus on loss of valuable nature sites and concerns that infrastructure in the area, in particular transport, cannot cope with so many additional homes.
Air quality is also a worry; opponents say nitrogen dioxide pollution levels on the A420 and A 4174 in Warmley and Kingswood are unacceptably high already.
Some town and parish councils in the area affected have also made formal objections to the plan, claiming that it is not “sound and deliverable”.
South Gloucestershire cabinet councillor Chris Willmore said: “We accept that not everyone will like everything in the Plan; some of the decisions we have had to make have been very difficult.
“We share local people’s passion to protect the character of the places they love to live. But we would be doing those people and the next generations a disservice if we simply tried to put up a roadblock to any new building.”