Housing Neighbours invited to view plans for Longmore Village

PEOPLE living around a proposed new suburb of Bristol - called Longmoor Village - are being invited to a drop-in session to view plans for more than 500 new homes on their doorstep.

- Tristan CORK

Developers have now revealed more details of their project to build on what was once a waste tip decades ago, then a farmer's field and more recently the site of a proposal to build a new Ashton Gate Stadium.

Developers Allison Homes South West have bought the land from Bristol Sport owner Steve Lansdown, after the billionaire owner of Ashton Gate Stadium obtained outline planning permission to develop the land he proposed a new stadium on around 17 years ago. Now Allison Homes are about to submit a detailed planning application for 510 new homes, and have given the first glimpse of what the new Longmoor Village development would look like.

As many as 30 per cent of the new homes would be classed as affordable, and there would be a mix of flats and terraced homes on new streets between the existing Ashton Vale suburb of Bristol and the Long Ashton Park and Ride site on the very edge of Bristol.