{"id":227246,"date":"2025-06-30T18:17:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T18:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/227246\/"},"modified":"2025-06-30T18:17:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T18:17:11","slug":"more-than-500-homes-to-be-built-in-rapidly-expanding-village-near-bristol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/227246\/","title":{"rendered":"More than 500 homes to be built in rapidly expanding village near Bristol"},"content":{"rendered":"

They include a neighbourhood centre, football pitches and allotments\"Artist\\'s(Image: Local Democracy Reporting Service)<\/p>\n

Developers have been granted planning permission by South Gloucestershire Council to build hundreds of homes in a rapidly expanding village.<\/p>\n

They will build 525 homes, a neighbourhood centre, football pitches and allotments, but there are concerns over a lack of public services.<\/p>\n

The new housing estate will be called Pennymeads, and will be built on farmland south of the village.<\/p>\n

The plans were approved by councillors on the strategic sites delivery committee on Thursday, June 26, with six votes in favour and three votes against.<\/p>\n

Charlotte Robinson, representing the applicants CEG, said: \u201cThis application brings forward a site which has been identified by the council to be suitable, appropriate and deliverable for residential development.<\/p>\n

“The proposal would deliver new homes, including 35 per cent affordable, housing suitable for older people, and five per cent of plots for self and custom build.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere would be an opportunity for small businesses to be established or grow at the local centre. Firms and jobs can be kept in Charfield.<\/p>\n

“Extensive green infrastructure is proposed, including three football pitches and changing rooms. Other types of open space will be provided, such as walking routes, children\u2019s play areas and allotments.\u201d<\/p>\n

Developers would put forward \u00a32.3 million to help reopen the railway station, improve bus services and a \u201cgreenway\u201d between Charfield and Wotton-under-Edge.<\/p>\n

Upgrades to the nearby junction 14 of the M5 motorway are also planned. The village is growing substantially, with another huge development planned, as well as a plan to expand the primary school<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Liberal Democrat Councillor John O\u2019Neil, representing Charfield, said: \u201cThere have been many objections, some of these are justified and a lot of them are because of the level of development we\u2019ve had in Charfield.<\/p>\n

“It\u2019s quite a distressing thing. We\u2019ve had three [major developments] in the last seven or eight years and they all come onto the Wotton Road.\u201d<\/p>\n

But one concern is the lack of public services in the village to match the ballooning population. While Charfield is close to the town of Wotton-under-Edge, some councillors and local residents believe the village needs its own services upgraded too.<\/p>\n

Conservative Cllr Liz Brennan said: \u201cIf it was me living in Charfield, and I was getting all these houses, and they\u2019ve already seen so many new houses, I would want out of this so much more. I would want a bigger shop, a guarantee that my children could go to school there, buses, and just so much more. We\u2019re offering them the bare minimum.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"They include a neighbourhood centre, football pitches and allotments(Image: Local Democracy Reporting Service) Developers have been granted planning…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":227247,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8818],"tags":[381,748,393,4884,11518,12717,285,10299,10302,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-227246","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bristol","8":"tag-bristol","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-liberal-democrats","13":"tag-planning","14":"tag-politics","15":"tag-south-gloucestershire","16":"tag-south-gloucestershire-council","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114773691478727151","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227246\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}