The development is being planned for North Warmley
Map showing the proposed North Warmley development(Image: Bloor Homes South West)
Bristol Live readers have weighed in on the comments section about a substantial new neighbourhood planned near Bristol, proposing 950 new homes and increased public green space.
Bloor Homes South West is behind the North Warmley development, where a vast portion of land—around the size of some 42 football pitches—would be converted into accessible open areas.
The company affirms that the majority of the site at Warmley would become accessible public greenery. The land is currently privately held.
The development’s remainder would accommodate approximately 950 new dwellings, featuring “affordable and age-friendly housing”, as per the developer’s plans.
These would be constructed in tandem with a fresh local centre boasting shops, a café, workspaces, a nursery, and a “sustainable transport hub”.
Planning director at Bloor Homes South West, Mike Kerton, commented: “Our proposals put green space first and create a place that works for people, nature and the wider community.
“For centuries, this land has been under private ownership. Now, there is an opportunity for new public open space accessible to everyone for the first time.
“The development is shaped by the landscape and designed to deliver long-term benefits, from the significant extension of Warmley Forest Park to community facilities and workspace available to everyone.”
We’re keen to hear from local people during this consultation to make sure the new neighbourhood, especially the new public open space, reflects what matters most to Warmley residents.”
However, this proposed development has sparked a series of mixed reactions from the public.
With our readers letting rip in our comments section, like Jake123456 who writes: “Have Bloor homes officially explained why they seek an exemption to be able to build within the greenbelt? Isn’t the point of the greenbelt to avoid urban expansion, and current labour government has advocated for new towns villages etc, so shouldn’t their first point of call be to build outside of the greenbelt?
“Warmley/Kingswood area is bottom 20% poverty of the UK and i can guarantee the social housing split of these proposed houses wont be upwards of 30%, and the new build house prices of both Barratt and Bloor (the proposed developers) have house prices circa £40-60k HIGHER than existing property prices in the area therefore making the area even less affordable for existing residents.
“While we’re at it they haven’t addressed the existing traffic issues of the local area, 950 homes would bring circa 1400 new cars to local roads too, and given the parking allocation of new builds is often less than 1-1 where are the excess 4-500 cars going to park?
“Doctors and dentists in the area are actively closing down, appointment times are circa 6-8 weeks for doctors and good luck even finding an NHS dentist. So overall Bloor want to build in an area that’s protected, increase traffic and pollution, increase demand upon existing services, and the local area will benefit from the development how?”
6470 says: “No-one has said how exactly many family houses and how many flats. All these pictures look good that is, until it’s built make sure all the local centres are built first as some greedy developers just build the flats/houses then forget to build anything to help the owners of the new properties.”
Burles54 writes: “So more homes for outsider’s, under the Old Nugget smoke screen called ‘Affordable housing’. What this really means, NO ACTUAL AFFORDABLE housing, just More Housing to benefit developers and the land owners.”
LucyClarkKiwi adds: “You’ll need a new primary school, and secondary school immediately for that. But that won’t happen.”
Junius comments: “The developer did not allocate the site as one for development. This was done by SGC as part of its Local Plan, which is obliged to plan for 6,000 more homes than originally intended to meet the housing targets set out in the Labour government’s Masterplan.
“This is 22,241 extra homes within South Gloucestershire by 2040. In this development, it’s not clear what type the ‘affordable’ housing and social rented will comprise or what the breakdown between the two within the 30 per cent of the total will be. It looks as though the market-priced housing will be two-storey and set at a price to incorporate the costs of smart heating, full insulation, heat pumps and solar panels applied to each.
“The developer, in its consultation PR, has promised a lot of community investment, but this will only be seen once the Community Infrastructure Levy is known.”
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