A background to the Local Plan Review – and what it means for Whitminster. Stroud District Council has to provide a ‘Local Plan’ indicating where future development might reasonably take place over a given period. This Plan is reviewed every 5 years or so. The current ‘live’ plan (which included Great Oldbury) was adopted in […]
Category: Planning
Ecotricity and the FGR Stadium
The Secretary of State declined to ‘call in’ planning permission for the football stadium on the North side of the A419. This means that Dale Vince now has outline planning permission to build it. There are certain conditions, and there are plenty of details to haggle over before full detailed permission is given. In the […]
Local Plan Review – Good News and Bad News
Every 6 or 7 years, Stroud DC have to review the Local Plan. It affects Housing and Industrial Land allocation in particular, and the new plan will run from 2022 to 2040 The Good News No further commercial house building is planned outside of Great Oldbury.Specifically, no sites are planned for around Alkerton, although all […]
Ecotricty / FGR Football Stadium Planning Application
As most of you probably know by now, the proposal to build a 5,000 seater football stadium (as shown above) came to the Stroud Planning Committee for decision on Wednesday 12th June. The Planning Officers had resolved to recommend (but not ‘strongly’ recommend) that the Councillors should approve this application. However, the elected Councillors on […]
Chipmans Platt Roundabout
Chipmans Platt Roundabout and A419 road works – an update from the contractors, Knights Brown. Works are progressing well on phase one of the A419 Highway Improvement Scheme at Chipmans Platt. We have been busy working at night to try and ensure we cause minimal disruption to the road network. If it looks quiet during […]
Chipmans Platt Roundabout
What’s all the fuss at the Shell Garage Roundabout at Chipmans Platt ? For several years now, Gloucester County Council (GCC) have been planning £4 million-worth of improvements – to our roundabout, to the Oldends Lane and Horse-trough roundabouts and to the traffic lights at Bridgend, all on the A 419. There have been plenty […]
The Bridleway (EEA33) and West of Stonehouse
During the installation of the haul road, the Bridleway crossing point had to be closed for a couple of days towards the end of January. Following this, the developers have given a re-assurance that they should be able to keep it open, now, by manually controlling the crossing point. The following is part of a […]
Parish Boundaries and ‘West of Stonehouse’ (Great Oldbury)
Stroud District Council is currently undertaking a review of ‘Community Governance’ . The process is used to consider whether existing Parish arrangements/boundaries should be changed in any way. Overall reviews like this are undertaken only every 10-15 years or so. The stated aim of the review is to ensure that the arrangements across the district […]
Ecotricity – The New Stadium Proposal
Following discussions with Stroud District Planners, Ecotricity have been advised that their original proposal would not fly and so have amended their planning application. It retains the original planning reference S.16/0043/OUT The planning application no longer includes any employment/business park and the proposed Nature Conservation Area to the west of the M5 has been removed. […]
West of Stonehouse development
The building of the new ‘spine’ road continues apace, to the point where it is already hard to remember exactly what Grove Lane looked like before they started. As reported last time, the Planning Application for the first phase originally submitted by Redrow, was rejected mainly for non-compliance with provisions in the Masterplan for buffer […]
Spotlight on Ecotricity threat to William Morris College
Here in Eastington we are well aware of the threat posed to William Morris College by the Ecotricity plans. The original proposal, to build a huge football stadium right on William Morris’s doorstep would have been catastrophic for the college. The new proposal (not yet fully disclosed) is to move the planned football stadium just […]
Ecotricity
Survey Results Thanks you to the 121 people who took time to participate in the ECN survey, which asked for residents’ views on the Ecotricity football stadium and business park planning application.
West of Stonehouse Development
Most of you will have seen that this has started, as the fields around Westend are being ripped up to make way for the new ‘spine’ road into the new estate and for the huge drainage attenuation ponds that such a dense building plan makes necessary.
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