The deadline of 6th AUGUST fast approaches. if you haven't made a Representation to South Glos yet, we would urge you to do this before they close their doors to any new submissions.
You can download our simplified Response form by clicking on the link at the side of this page, or clicking HERE.
If you are bit braver, you could try responding to South Glos on its own website, and submit an online representation. To do this, click HERE.
Hopefully this website should go a bit quieter over the summer as we wait to see what South Glos Council make of the (hopefully) many hundreds of Representations urging them to think again about their plans for NW Thornbury.
In the Autumn we will be publishing on this website some of our findings about the Core Strategy and the Sustainability Appraisal and the process of misinformation that has led to this seriouos threat to Thornbury's Green Heritage.
Thank you all for your wonderful support and e-mails and comments and encouragement, and also donations towards printing costs.
Happy Holidays
Let's hope that the Autumn will bring us all better news.
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Friday, 30 July 2010
Thursday, 15 July 2010
HOUSING DEVELOPER TRICKS
Has anyone read today's "housing" article in The Gazette - an interview with Barratt's Homes? Go to our media page and read the article for yourself.
Sly tactics from the Developers, presumably feeling the pressure from our campaign on their planned development of 500 + houses - they now seek to woo local residents with talk of a likely smaller development and lots of consultation along the way. If they had consulted with Save Thornbury's Green Heritage, they might have got the message that we don't want ANY houses in our Heritage Fields in NW Thornbury - at least, not without genuine consultation and a valid mandate from the people of Thornbury. If we had been properly consulted in the first place by Thornbury Town Council and South Glos Council, and if the potential sites had been properly and fairly appraised, we wouldn't be in this current mess.
In the article, there is a curious denial of any intentions for further housing, wheras plans for 1500 houses HAVE BEEN SEEN BY LOCAL RESIDENTS in conversation with Surveyors at work in the fields. The whole point of this "compromise" tactic of fewer houses / a smaller development is to get a foot in the door, so to speak. Once the build begins, it would be very likely that fresh applications would come in for additional developments to augment the development size and scale
We leave it to you to decide whether Mr. Duff has indeed quashed any rumours of a larger build!
Meanwhile, we're still in desperate need of leafletters and doorknockers. Lots of streets in Thornbury still to be leafletted. Can you spare an hour to do a couple of roads? The likely measure of our success may well turn out to be the sheer number of responses handed in. Each response is another voice heard. We've just gone to print for another 2000 response forms. Please consider if you can deliver...
Sly tactics from the Developers, presumably feeling the pressure from our campaign on their planned development of 500 + houses - they now seek to woo local residents with talk of a likely smaller development and lots of consultation along the way. If they had consulted with Save Thornbury's Green Heritage, they might have got the message that we don't want ANY houses in our Heritage Fields in NW Thornbury - at least, not without genuine consultation and a valid mandate from the people of Thornbury. If we had been properly consulted in the first place by Thornbury Town Council and South Glos Council, and if the potential sites had been properly and fairly appraised, we wouldn't be in this current mess.
In the article, there is a curious denial of any intentions for further housing, wheras plans for 1500 houses HAVE BEEN SEEN BY LOCAL RESIDENTS in conversation with Surveyors at work in the fields. The whole point of this "compromise" tactic of fewer houses / a smaller development is to get a foot in the door, so to speak. Once the build begins, it would be very likely that fresh applications would come in for additional developments to augment the development size and scale
We leave it to you to decide whether Mr. Duff has indeed quashed any rumours of a larger build!
Meanwhile, we're still in desperate need of leafletters and doorknockers. Lots of streets in Thornbury still to be leafletted. Can you spare an hour to do a couple of roads? The likely measure of our success may well turn out to be the sheer number of responses handed in. Each response is another voice heard. We've just gone to print for another 2000 response forms. Please consider if you can deliver...
E-mail us at ourgreenheritage@gmail.com
Thursday, 8 July 2010
DOOR KNOCKERS AND LEAFLET-ERS NEEDED
We have a massive pile of leaflets and Representation forms to be distributed around Thornbury.
If you would like to volunteer your services to spread the word, your help would be gratefully received. Name the street you wish to leaflet, and we'll supply the forms! Let us know by e-mailing ourgreenheritage@gmail.com .
Were you, like us, disappointed with the Turnberries Exhibition today? The lack of answers was more apparent than the supposed information they had on offer!
Make sure you register your dismay and send it to Spatial Planning (Download a form from this website). There is no limit to the number of representations you can make / Send a letter / Do the South Glos online response ..
Monday, 5 July 2010
SHOCK FROM SURVEYORS: 1500 HOUSES!!!
Local residents have been dismayed to discover from surveyors out and about on the Park Farm Estate, that the area they are currently surveying for Barratts Homes, is far larger than the officially designated site, and involves plans for 1500 houses, not the 500-600 proposed by the South Glos Core Strategy. Is this over-optimistic developpers, or is there more to the South Glos plans than meets the eye? You be the judge - but make sure in any event that you make your representation to the Core Strategy - click on LINK on this page.Why not head out to Turnberries this coming THURSDAY 8TH JULY, from 3.30-7.30pm and pose your questions to the South Glos Planning Team, who are exhibiting latest plans, and responding to local residents enquiries. The Save Thornbury's Green Heritage team will be on hand to advise you how to make your voice heard and complete a REPRESENTATION to the Core Strategy - must be done before 6th August!
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