Animal care college New passing place to solve traffic issues on lane

A NEW passing place and minibus is planned to solve a bitter row over a dangerous country lane leading to an animal care college.

- Alex SEABROOK Local democracy reporter

The college, on a farm north-east of Bristol, faced a planning threat as neighbours complained the traffic there makes the narrow lane an unsafe nightmare.

Peopleton Brook Farm, south of Chipping Sodbury, has been granted planning permission by South Gloucestershire Council to operate as a “care farm”. This has been happening already for a few years now, but without the relevant permission from council planners.

When the farm applied for permission though, a flurry of neighbours objected due to a “traffic explosion” since the pandemic. They claimed there had been car crashes and road rage along Mill Lane, a narrow country track with few passing places, large potholes and frequent floods.