Meadows row Developer vows to press on with 260-home plan

DEVELOPERS looking to build 260 new homes on perhaps the most controversial greenfield site in Bristol have announced that they are pressing on with their plans. Keepmoat are to publish their plans for the new homes on Brislington Meadows next week, and are holding a 'drop-in session' for local residents to find out more the week after.

- Tristan CORK

The site already has outline planning permission for the 260 new homes, controversially awarded by the Government's planning inspector after the owners of the land - the Government's housing agency Homes England - appealed a council decision to turn down the plans.

But now Homes England has selected a housebuilder Keepmoat - and they are set to submit a more detailed planning application to Bristol City Council in the next couple of months, in a move which will reignite a 12-year long battle over the future of the site, which was left as green fields and hedges when Brislington and Broomhill expanded around it in postwar South Bristol.

The new plans from Keepmoat will go live on the development's website from midday next Wednesday, July 9, and the following Monday, July 14, Keepmoat are hosting an in-person drop-in event at St Luke's Wigwam Scout Hut on Brookside Road in Brislington between 3pm and 7pm.