The South Glos Post

Local councillors have welcomed new signs to deter confused HGVs from turning round in a residential street in Kingswood.

HGV traffic leaving the businesses on either side of Bridge Road in Kingswood regularly turn out onto Bridge Road only to find that they are unable to travel up the narrow Manor Road towards Mangotsfield because of a 7.5 tonne weight limit.

In order to turnaround and head towards Station Road, the HGVs then reverse into Fairlyn Drive – something councillors and local people say represents a road safety hazard for residents.

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Source: Conservative Councillors on South Gloucestershire Council

Campaigning councillors have expressed their delight after an application to increase a Kingswood industrial estate’s working hours was thrown out by planners.

In August, a planning application was submitted by the owners of the Bridge Road Industrial Estate to extend their hours of operation from 8:00 – 18:00 to 7:00 – 19:00 Monday to Friday and from 8:00 – 13:00 to 07:00 – 17:00 Saturdays.

South Gloucestershire Council planners have now refused permission for this variation.

Nearby local residents already have to put up with noise and disturbance from the site and so were concerned about the increased impact of longer working hours.

The area’s local Conservative councillors started the campaign against the application and organised a protest rally last month attended by over 50 local residents living in surrounding streets.

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Source: Conservative Group on South Gloucestershire Council

Opposition is growing to plans by a Kingswood industrial estate to increase its hours of operation.

A planning application has been submitted by the owners of the Bridge Road Industrial Estate to extend their hours of operation from 08:00 – 18.00 to 07:00 – 19:00 Monday to Friday and from 08:00 – 13:00 to 07:00 – 17:00 Saturdays.

Local residents already have to put up with noise and disturbance and are concerned about the increased impact of longer working hours.

Conservative councillor for the Rodway ward, Kevin Seager, said:

“We oppose what the owners are proposing because of the impact on local residents who already have concerns about the industrial estate.”

His fellow Rodway colleague, Adrian Millward, added:

“Clearly, the whole point of the existing planning condition that limits the hours of operation is to try and minimise noise and disturbance as much as possible.

Relaxing that condition would make the situation worse for nearby households.”

Source: Conservative Group on South Gloucestershire Council

Mangotsfield councillors and residents have handed hundreds of petition signatures to the Leader of South Gloucestershire Council in defence of the local Green Belt.

The petitions are in response to a planning application for 180 new houses on Green Belt land at Cossham Street in Mangotsfield.

The developers – Taylor Wimpey UK – have submitted the plans on the back of the government’s controversial Regional Spatial Strategy (RSS) that calls for 32,800 new houses to be built in South Gloucestershire through a series of sprawling ‘urban extensions’ on Green Belt land.

Efforts to scrap the RSS are being stepped up in an effort to discourage speculative planning applications, which have followed the government’s confirmation that its RSS planning blueprint has ‘substantial weight’ in planning terms – even though it is yet to be finalised.

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Source: Conservative Group on South Gloucestershire Council