Dear STGH Supporter,
First of all, a big thank-you to everyone who took the opportunity to respond to South
Gloucestershire Council’s core strategy. You may well have picked up from the
media that the council had hundreds of responses indicating the depth of feeling that
exists concerning housing development in Thornbury.
Earlier this month, representatives of Save Thornbury’s Green Heritage went to the
council’s planning meeting with high hopes that all your responses would have made
councillors and official sit up and take notice. Disappointingly, it quickly became
clear that they very much want to ignore public opinion and press on with their plans.
Click HERE to read summary notes of meeting.
So what can we do now? Well, we believe that we have to keep on putting our views
forward and make it as difficult as possible for the council to ignore us. If we all write
to councillors and officials and remind them of just how many of us need to be heard,
we can show them that we won’t just go away.
Please write to the people below.....
Let’s have them each receiving hundreds of messages –
1 ) Asking them to become familiar with our critique of the Sustainability Appraisal (available to read on our website - which draws full attention to the SA's contradictions and inaccuracies), and not allow it to be used to justify the selection of Park Farm as the favoured option for development.
2) Asking them to be fully aware of, and not ignore the current Local Plan that says there is no need for any housing development in Thornbury.
3 ) Reminding them that the new coalition government’s policy is to engage with local communities - unlike SGC which has declared that there is to be no further engagement with the Community who live in Thornbury about how their town should be developed.
If the people who are supposed to represent us are made to listen to the views of many, they must surely begin to listen and act in our interests.
Please find a few minutes to write to them. The more we do together, the greater the power of our argument.
Many thanks.
People to write to -
Leader of South Glos Council:
Councillor John Calway - john.calway@southglos.gov.uk
Deputy Leader of South Glos Council:
Councillor Sheila Cook - sheila.cook@southglos.gov.uk,
South Glos Executive Cabinet Members:
Councillor Heather Goddard - heather.goddard@southglos.gov.uk,
Councillor Allan Higgs - allan.higgs@southglos.gov.uk,
Councillor Matthew Riddle - matthew.riddle@southglos.gov.uk,
Councillor Brian Allinson - brian.allinson@southglos.gov.uk,
Councillor John Godwin - john.godwin@southglos.gov.uk,
also worth copying in your MP:
Steve Webb - steve@stevewebb.org.uk
