Engine Common - disaster!

Local residents are horrified at the proposal put forward by Bloor Homes and Sydney Freed Holdings to build hundreds of new homes and offices all over Engine Common. Local Councillor Howard Gawler  met some of them to look at the open countryside that would be lost.

“These fields with their grazing horses and wild life  are really important,” he said. “They are not only a beautiful view for people living nearby, they ensure that people living in the expanding town of Yate have easy access to the countryside where they
can enjoy a walk with their children and dogs”.

Local residents are forming an Action Group to ensure the strength of feeling against these proposals is made very, very clear. Steve Webb MP has added his support. Although South Gloucestershire Council is not proposing development here in the planning blueprint for the area, the developers will be able to put forward their case to a Government Inspector at the Public Inquiry into the Core Strategy and the Council could be overruled. Please sign the Action Group petition by going to www.saveenginecommon.co.uk.