Object now to the University planning application!

Bristol University has now lodged an outline planning application for over 1000 houses, plus office and other commercial space and a primary school, proposed for the triangle of land between the railway, Wild Country Lane and the bypass – all of it prime grade 1 or 2 agricultural land.
Although North Somerset are opposed to development of the Green Belt, this is a very real threat, and the more people who object, the better.
You can comment via the North Somerset website, www.n-somerset.gov.uk. Click on ‘planning’ in one of the left hand menus, then click on ‘online planning application search’, and enter the application number: 10/P/0066/OT2. (Important: note that the last ‘O’ in ‘OT2′ is a letter, not a number). However, the application seems to be disappearing regularly from the website, so if you can’t find it, you can object by post to the planning department at Town Hall, Walliscote Grove Road, Weston-super-Mare BS23 1UJ.
And if you’re doing it via the website, make sure you click to show you’re objecting, not consenting, on the menu at the top of the ‘comment’ page.
Every adult in your household is entitled to comment.

February 21, 2010 · Filed Under general

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4 Responses to “Object now to the University planning application!”

  1. James White on February 23rd, 2010 11:15 pm

    I think you’ve got the planning app number (slightly) incorrect. You’ve quoted “10/P/0066/0T2″ but its “10/P/0066/OT2″
    The OT2 suffix starts with a letter ‘O’ not a numeric zero. Looks the same, but computers are rather fussy about these things :-)

    Regards,

    James

  2. Giles on March 1st, 2010 7:42 pm

    Good working bringing this to our attention, and defending Long Ashton! I can’t find the case on the N-Somerset website either, but have e-mailed them.

    Thanks,

    Giles

  3. Giles on March 9th, 2010 9:32 pm

    Incidentally, if you can’t find it with the case reference number, you can find it by looking at planning applications by street name – it’s under Wild Country Lane.

  4. Tom on March 23rd, 2010 2:46 pm

    Wild Country Lane… how appropriate.

    I have just objected via the N-Somerset website, and have a mind to write a letter to the University as well. I wholely object to this idea, it seems completely ludicrous. Speaking as a student of UoB, I think this is a complete waste of the money they keep telling us they need to save (their methods so far have been letting staff go). Speaking as a keen walker and lover of all things nature-y, I think this is a horrible thing to do to a lovely area, which is surely going to have a negative impact on the ecosystem and such (I saw a buzzard by the railway bridge, not two days ago).

    I hope the people of Long Ashton can repulse the university, and I wish everyone fighting against them good luck!

    Tom

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